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Statute Hall, or The Modern Register Office – Historic Reproduction

Statute Hall, or The Modern Register Office, 1769 — antique engraving
Statute Hall, or The Modern Register Office, 1769. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Its title, *Statute Hall, or The Modern Register Office*, sets up a pun on a grand public building and an office where records were kept. The engraving is credited to M. Darly, a London printseller and caricaturist who produced many satirical plates in the 1760s and 1770s, when such prints were a popular way to mock fashions, officials and social pretensions. Because the catalog details come from an unverified caption card, the precise target of the joke is best read from the image and its inscriptions.

Created / published1769
Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesEngraving by M. Darly. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,124 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158286

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