[A satire on picture auctions] [graphic].

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Description

Title
[A satire on picture auctions] [graphic].
Contributor
Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704, artist.
Toms, W. H. approximately 1700-approximately 1750.
Published / Created
[1766?]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print.
Publication date based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. See no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Slightly reduced copy in reverse, without attribution and with different verses, of a print published ca. 1730. Cf. No. 1863 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Now gentlemen - see, here's a piece! I hope you'll all bid up for this, two guineas, thirty shillings, twenty sure gentlemen, that will content ye ...
Temporary local subject terms: Paintings: Anthony Van Dyck, 1599-1641 -- Paintings: Adriaen van de Velde, 1636-1672, or Cornelius van de Velde, 1699-1729 -- Lighting: trident-like torch -- Reference to South Sea Company -- Reference to East India Company -- Artist's implements: palette and brushes -- Lions -- Monkeys -- Bulls -- Cats -- Sheep -- Goats.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i; May 1954;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 29 x 25 cm, on sheet 34 x 29 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
766.00.00.06+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1766
Etchings England London 1766
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Art auctions
Auctioneers
Jewelry
Paintings
Torches
Artists' materials
Subjects
Art auctions
Auctioneers
Jewelry
Paintings
Torches
Artists' materials
England > 1766
England > London > 1766

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8427531
Object ID (OID)
10713284

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