File:A New Road to Riches. Lottery Chances (BM 1868,0808.5386).jpg
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A New Road to Riches. Lottery Chances
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Print made by: William Dent
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A New Road to Riches. Lottery Chances |
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English: Illustration to a sheet of etched verses. The front of a 'Lottery Assurance Office', the windows plastered with advertisements. Sam House stands on the doorstep, speaking to a ragged woman (right) with an infant in her arms and a little ragged boy. Sam's breeches are ragged; in his left hand is a paper inscribed 'Policy N° 45', his right palm is extended to take a coin which the boy puts into it; he says to the woman, "Come, give me the money - Dam it I'll try once more". She holds in her hand a pawn-ticket inscribed 'Duplicat[e] a Coat 2 6'; she has given the half-crown to the boy to hand to Sam. Behind Sam, just inside the door, is a dog with the head and tail of a fox, looking up at a bird resembling a duck but intended for a pigeon, which flies towards him with a ticket in his mouth inscribed 'N° 342'. Behind the woman is the door of a pawnbroker's shop adjoining the Lottery Office. Over the door are three balls and 'Money lent'; in the side-window are the words 'Purse, Pawnbroker', and watches, a tankard, &c. On the other side of the Lottery Office (left), perhaps belonging to it, is a door over which is 'Anthony Parkes'. On the doorstep stands a lottery-office tout, grotesquely dressed and blowing a trumpet from which hangs a flag inscribed 'Take Notice. A Provision for life may be gained by a 6d Chance'. In his right hand are hand-bills inscribed 'Pretty Plans'. He wears a conical hat on which is a feather inscribed 'Riches Now or Never', with a tunic and trousers ornamented with large spots.
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Charles James Fox | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1784 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.5386 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The advertisements in the window of the Lottery Office are based on actual advertisements; the newspapers during the drawing of the lottery were full of Lottery Office puffs, among which those by Parkes were conspicuously alluring. His advertisements were headed 'Parkes & Riches!', and he offered the possibility of wealth from the sum of sixpence upwards. He professed to be 'the first who conceived the possibility of giving very extended Benefits for the most trifling sums adventured . . . the eager liberality of a generous Public did way [sic] his Risque and amply recom-penced his Talents and his Time'. The other names (Goodluck, Stapleton, Margray) in the cautionary verses are those of actual lottery offices, to be found in contemporary advertisements. There was an 'Amicable Society of Lottery Adventurers' as well as an 'Equitable Society ...'. It was a fact that during the drawing of the lottery the business of all shops used by the poorer classes in London dwindled except that of the pawnbrokers which multiplied, owing to the system of (illegal) lottery assurances by which, for very small sums, tickets were insured against being drawn as blanks. See Ashton, 'History of English Lotteries', 1893, pp. 293 ff. Sam House, with his policy N° 45 and the 'Fox-dog', gives the satire a political application. House had 'commenced politician' in 1763 'in support of Wilkes and Liberty', 'Life and Political Opinions of the late Sam House' [1785], p. 15. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5386 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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