Columbine Harlequin. [graphic]

Description

Title: Columbine Harlequin. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Harlequin
Published / Created: [1745?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: In an open landscape, an elegantly dressed Columbine is seated on a rock and taking a pinch of snuff from a large snuffbox. Her head is turned back slightly towards Harlequin who stands behind her gesturing dramatically
Description: Title engraved below image.
Dated by costume.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Columbine. What would'st thou have fonr Harlequin? ... Harlequin. My charmer all I mean is love ...
One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 17 x 17 cm, window mounted to 23 x 19 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. 1, p. 131; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 160 x 160 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1745
Engravings England London 1745
Etchings England London 1745
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Commedia dell'arte
Subjects: Commedia dell'arte
England > 1745
England > London > 1745

Access: Public
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