[Cromwell Mortimer] [graphic]
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10700450
Description
- Title
- [Cromwell Mortimer] [graphic]
- Creator
- Rigaud, Jacques, 1681-1754, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [1745?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
A man sits at a table in his library leaning his head on his hand as he contemplates the sheets of paper before him. An owl sits on the table with a ink well suspended from his mouth and a quill resting in the well. A demon behind the reader holds in his left hand a staff with a jester's head (personification of folly?) and in his right a very large feather. On the scholar's feet a strewn books with words on their spines: Borrow; Boyle; Newton; Radclife; Friend; Mead, etc. Temporary local subject terms: The pictures on the wall are portraits labelled 'Cromwell' and 'Mortimer' but depict Olver Cromwell and Mortimer, Earl of March
- Description
-
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Two lines of verse above image: Here folly, ignorance and pride combine, to prove him of the true Duncean line.
Six lines of quotation below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, sinking from thought to thought a vast profound ...
Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 8.
Mounted to 32 x 39 cm. - Provenance
- Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906. Formerly owned by Edwin Thomas Truman, and sold to Bowditch in 1906.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 20.7 x 16.9 cm, on sheet 24.0 x 19.0 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 745.00.00.04 Impression 1
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1745
Etchings England London 1745 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Mortimer, Cromwell, -1752
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. - Subject (Topic)
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Libraries (Rooms & spaces)
Owls
Quacks
Demons - Subjects
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Mortimer, Cromwell, -1752 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Libraries (Rooms & spaces)
Owls
Quacks
Demons
England > 1745
England > London > 1745
Truman, Edwin Thomas, 1818-1905 > Ms. notes
Truman, Edwin Thomas, 1818-1905 > Ownership
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
- 8774068
- Object ID (OID)
- 10700450
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