The Triumph of Sentiment - The Prospect of Happiness - or, a Picture for Dotards

by Erotic Satire, Widows, Sexuality

$1,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: S. W. Fores, Nov. 1, 1800. First edition. Illustrated hand-colored broadside measuring 270 x 400mm and printed to verso only. Faint offsetting to recto and faint traces of mounting to corners. In all, a Fine example of this visual satire commenting on the phenomenon of younger men seeking marriage with elderly widows for their own financial gain -- and the cultural anxiety surrounding the

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