Columbine [graphic].

Description

Title: Columbine [graphic].
Alternative Title: Harlequin
Published / Created: [1745?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: In an open landscape, Harlequin is sitting on a rock, holding a little boy across his lap and whipping his bare bottom with a birch rod. Columbine, coming up from behind them, tries to intervene
Description: Title from item.
Dated based on another print in this series: Columbine. Harlequin.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of most of the plate number in upper right corner.
Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Columbine. Will whipping ever mend a child? ... Harlequin. Pray hold yr. tongue how shoud you know ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: Pro patria.
Provenance: Dramatis Personae; November 2001;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 16 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1745
Engravings England London 1745
Etchings England London 1745
Watermarks (Paper)
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

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