Debtor's welcome to their brother
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Description
- Title
- Debtor's welcome to their brother
- Contributor
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1740?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- G. Bickham
- Abstract
-
A design within a decorative cartouche, suggestive of a proscenium arch: A well dressed young man stands in the center of a room in the prison in which are five other figures. On the left, a ragged unshaven man in a striped garment is sitting on a bale, a small woman stands beside him. Behind them is a table with a mug on it. On the floor near the man's foot lies a paper inscribed "Sceen [sic] 4. Nation's debts". On the young man's left, another prisoner is sitting on a bench. In front of him is another bench with a carafe of gin and a glass on it. He is the singer of the song. Behind him stands a little boy with a flagon of beer in his left hand. The turnkey in the background holds an open book and is pointing to a page marked "Garnish(?)".
- Description
-
Title from item.
Probably based on Hogarth's Rake's progress, plate 7.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for voice on two staves with interlinear words. Additional six stanzas below.
Plate numbered '26' in upper right corner.
Opening words: Welcome, welcome brother debtor ...
Plate from: Bickham, G. The musical entertainer, v.2.
Plate number erased from this impression. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v. 1, p. 66; May 1954;
- Extent
- 1 score ([1] p.) : sheet 27 x 19 cm.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 740.00.00.43+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Songs England 1740
Satires (Visual works) England 1740
Satires
Notated music
Etchings England London 1740 - Material
- ill. (1 etching) ;
- Subjects
-
England > 1740
England > London > 1740
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8847905
- Object ID (OID)
- 10700232