john raphael smith 1751 (2 risultati)

Platte: 29,8 x 24 cm; Blatt: 42,2 x 32 cm etwas angestaubt, etwas stockfleckig, rechtes obere Eck leicht knittrig, sonst gut Sprache: Deutsch 1001 gr.

Condizione: Good. Mezzotint . Tipped onto a blue support sheet. 35 x 25cm. Tears without loss in lower margin. Repaired tear from the dog to the printed text. The copy at the British Museum lacks the printed date in the lower margin.British Museum number 1935,0522.1.16.Description Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest. 1774.Inscription content: Lettered with title and "Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.Published as the Act directs 25 June 1774.Curator's comments:. The shop is Carington Bowles's own shop in St Paul's Church Yard. All the prints in the window must be his publications. The date June 25 1774 appears on another impression. For another print of the window, see BMSat.6352.Bibliographic references:. D'Oench 1999 / Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) (45) BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (3758) . Frankau 1904 / Eighteenth Century Artists and Engravers: William Ward A.R.A. and James Ward R.A. (332). Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed).