Print made by Samuel Okey, active 1765–1780, British, Money and Little Wit, undated
- Title:
Money and Little Wit
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 3/16 inches (41.3 × 28.4 cm), Plate: 13 15/16 × 10 inches (35.4 × 25.4 cm), and Image: 12 3/8 × 9 15/16 inches (31.4 × 25.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "1. 16 1/2 11 3/8"; inscribed in blue crayon, verso, upper left: "181"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower center: "#16"
Lettered, lower left: "Fitz Herbert pinxt."; lettered, lower right: "S.Okey fecit."; lettered, lower center: "MONEY AND LITTLE WIT. | Printed for JOHN BOWLES, at No.13 In Cornhill, LONDON."; lettered, lower left: "The Boy, enraptur'd at the Sight, Beholds the Coin with vast Delight, -"; lettered, lower right: "yet not withstanding all his Jooy, | 'Twill Soon be Lavish on a Toy.-"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1092
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22782
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