The prodigals nurse,or modern heir,1750,England,debt,deed to estate,Usury

Title: The prodigals nurse, or modern heir / M. Iackson, invt. ; Boitard sculpt.
Creator(s): Boitard, Louis-Philippe, fl. 1733-1770, engraver
Date Created/Published: 1750.
Summary: Print shows an interior view of a room in which a dapperly dressed young man, 'Booby Squander, Esq.', turns over the deed to the family estate, his inheritance, to a money lender, the usurer 'Solomon Thrifty', in return for a handful of coins. This scene is mirrored in an open window in the background where a spider has spun a web and caught a moth.
Notes:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament May ... 1750.
Includes 8 lines of verse: From Parents & from friends set free, / Young Squander comes the Town to see; / Debauch'd by Party and by Whores, / Dad stops his Hand in paying Scores / To Nurse, the Us'rer, he applies, / ...
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Usury--England--1750.
Debt--England--1750.
Rake's progress--1750.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1750.
Engravings--British--1750.
Bookmark /2002719531/
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