Print, satirical print (BM 1870,0514.1940 1)

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Print, satirical print (BM 1870,0514.1940 1)

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Portrait of an innkeeper known as 'Mother Louse'; an old woman with pointed chin, smiling, almost three-quarter length, directed to left, wearing bonnet, tall conical hat, ruff and apron, a jug in her left hand by her side, a tankard in her right, held out; landscape in the distance beyond, at left, her inn, lettered 'Louse Hall', a famous establishment outside the city of Oxford; fanciful coat of arms at top left: three lice surmounted by a tankard, motto on banner underneath, 'Three lice pas-sant'. Reversed copy after Loggan.
Engraving with etching

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Date

1800
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British Museum
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