The contrast utrum horum mavis accipe. [graphic]

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Title: The contrast utrum horum mavis accipe. [graphic]
Contributor: Parker, Henry, 1725-1809, publisher.
Bakewell, Thomas, ca. 1729-1749, printmaker.
Published / Created: [approximately 1760]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by Henry Parker, opposite Birchin Lane, Cornhill
Abstract: A representation of contrasting feelings and emotions in two separate oval frames on one plate. In the left one, a dejected-looking middle-aged man is gazing ahead with unseeing eyes. His chin rests on the handle of the cane that he is holding up with both hands, chapeau-bras. His forehead is creased with worry and his mouth downturned. In the frame on the right, a stout middle-aged man laughs joyously pointing to sad man on the left
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Later state, with the background mezzotinted, of a print made and published by Thomas Bakewell in 1737.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Contrasts.
Window mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss ; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22 x 33 cm
Edition: [State with mezzotint background].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1737
Engravings England London 1760
Etchings England London 1760
Mezzotints England London 1760
Material: etching, engraving & mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1737
England > London > 1760

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