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Take care of your pockets (Charity begins at home)
(1824)
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
25.5 × 33.5 cm (image) 27.0 × 35.6 cm (plate) 27.5 × 38.6 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
George 14654
Printing/Publishing
published by S. W. Fores, London
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: Marks fect (t in superscript) / London Pubo (o in superscript) by S.W. Fores / 41 Piccadilly
printed in ink (in image) u.c.: Take care of your pockets —
printed in ink (in image) l.r.-l.r.: Charity begins at home!!! This print is dedicated to those pretended relievers of the Poor, who have disposed of / their shares at 1000 per cent profit, leaving the office of Charity to the unfortunate purchasers so taken in, (so taken in underlined) by which trisyllable (trisyllable underlined) charity (charity underlined)they / cheat one set of People, ruin another & leave the Poor out of the Question. see the History of England, Hume & Smollett 1731 Geo. 2nd page 508 when / a similar Humbug was played off & the unfortunate subscribers divided only 35,000 out ot 600,000 (600,000 underlined) take care of your pocket.
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-u.r.: (three speech bubbles of text)
printed in ink (in image) c.: (text in open book and on scroll)
Accession Number
1573.34-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire
Subjects (specific)
cartoons (humorous images) discussions (events) investments (expenditures) men (male humans) pawnshops (built works) women (female humans)
Movements
Regency (British)