Fond courtship Unhappy marriage / [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Fond courtship Unhappy marriage / [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Unhappy marriage
- Contributor
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Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, artist.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher. - Published / Created
- [1740s]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Printed for Carington Bowles in S. Paul's Churchyard, London
- Abstract
-
A print with two images, the first of which is an amorous young couple, enclosed in a garland of fruits and flowers joined at the bottom by a head of a blindfolded cherub on crossed cornucopias of fruit and coin. The second image can be viewed by turning the print upside-down image and shows an older, quarreling couple enclosed by a garland of entwined leafless branches and supported at the bottom by a horned head of a demon. Six lines of verse describing each scene are engraved on the happy couple's side on two goatskins suspended on either side of the image, and on the unhappy couple's side on a skin of an ass and that of a bear, suspended in similar fashion of the sides. The verse on the happy couple's side begins as follows, "When two fond fools together meet, each look gives joy, each kiss is sweet ..." On the unhappy couple's side the verse begins "The nuptials o'er with angry brow the married pair, both peevish grow ..."
- Description
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Title and imprint from another impression in an Andrew Edmunds sales catalogue (viewed October 2016).
With Carington Bowles series number '33' in lower right corner.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title and imprint.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark.
Window mounted to 37 x 27 cm. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 29 x 23 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 745.00.00.09+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 174-
Engravings England London 174-
Etchings England London 174-
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Couples
Courtship
Marriage
Metamorphic pictures - Subjects
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Couples
Courtship
Marriage
Metamorphic pictures
England > 174-
England > London > 174-
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
- 8775390
- Object ID (OID)
- 10700455