Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.

  • Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.
Date:
1 January 1830
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16168i
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Living made easy
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Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, 1 January 1830.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour.

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Living made easy. Revolving hat. Which by a slight touch presents its wearer with, eye-glass, cegar, scent-box, spectacles, hearing-trumpet, &cc, &cc, without the intolerable trouble holding them. Name of the printer is cut off at the bottom of impression catalogued

Reference

Wellcome Collection 16168i

Notes

One sheet in a series of twelve sheets by Robert Seymour forming the collection Living made easy, dedicated to the Utilitarian Society, London 1830

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Exhibited in “In Plain Sight” at Wellcome Collection, 20 October 2022- 12 February 2023

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