The Spendthrift

Haverling after Robert Pyle

The Spendthrift

London, ca. 1760

Engraving

Original hand colouring

345 x 240 mm

Trimmed close to image on left side.

£160

A man seated to left with clasped hands in despair at a table covered with playing cards, an empty glass, guttering candle and a pipe.

Below the title are 32 rows of verse arranged in two rows, Starting ‘No Rake that rov’d , the garden round, with Squander, could Compare‘ and ends  ‘When, squanderlike, each purse-proud balde, Shall cease to play the Fool ‘