Harlequin skeleton [graphic].

Description

Title: Harlequin skeleton [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [23 March 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, Marh. [the] 23rd 1772 by Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Below imprint: 6d. plain, 1s. colour'd.
Four images, each with six lines of verse below. A horizontal line bisects the design to make 8 compartments.
Verse below first image from left: The royal chaser here you view, a monarch and a sportsman too ...
Verse below second image from left: The clown is ordered by his master to keep the house, oh! sad disaster ...
Verse below third image from left: Here Harlequin with Columbine is telling of his whole design ...
Verse below fourth image from left: The old man from his information the subject treats with speculation ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Columbine -- Pantaloon as a Turkish magician -- Chemical equipment -- Hunting horns, 1772 -- Tuning fork -- Turkish magician, 1772 -- Animals: stuffed animals.
Watermark: initials HB in circle.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Watermarks (Paper) H. B.
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790
Subject (Topic): Harlequin (Fictitious character)
Pantaloon (Fictitious character)
Card games
Clowns
Hunting dogs
Lorgnettes
Magicians
Scientific equipment
Musical instruments
Skeletons
Mortars & pestles
Hunters
Subjects: Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790 > Caricatures and cartoons
Harlequin (Fictitious character)
Pantaloon (Fictitious character)
Card games
Clowns
Hunting dogs
Lorgnettes
Magicians
Scientific equipment
Musical instruments
Skeletons
Mortars & pestles
Hunters
England > 1772
England > London > 1772
H. B.

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