Chevalier de l'Etoil Polaire [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Chevalier de l'Etoil Polaire [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Chevalier de l'Étoile Polaire
- Contributor
- Darly, M. publisher.
- Published / Created
- [7 March 1773]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by MDarly, March 7, 1773, 39 Strand
- Abstract
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"The standing figure of a man whose head is that of a double-headed animal, to the left an ass, to the right a bear. With his left hand (which also holds a whip) he leads an elephant whose head and trunk appear from the right. His right hand rests on the pinnacle of a Chinese pagoda ornamented with dragons. Suspended round his neck is the figure of a bear showing that he has the Swedish order of the Polar Star."--British Museum online catalogue
"A satire on Sir William Chambers, illustrating in detail Mason's 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight,...' which had just appeared, and opens 'Knight of the Polar Star'; it is both a political satire and an attack on Chambers' Dissertation on Oriental Gardening and on the Chinese pagoda which he had built at Kew for the Princess Dowager of Wales ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched at top of image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Four lines of verse below image: From north to the south I came forth right, by favor in duplici modo a knight ...
Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "11" in upper right corner.
For an earlier state without numbering, see no. 5157 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Temporary local subject terms: Animals: Ass -- Buildings: Chinese pagoda.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 18 x 13 cm, mounted to 33 x 26 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated in upper left corner resulting in loss of volume number. - Provenance
- Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 17.5 x 12.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm
- Edition
- [State with volume and plate numbers].
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 773.03.07.01.2
- Collection Title
- Leaf 97. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Collection Date
- [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796
- Subject (Topic)
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Monsters
Animals
Elephants
Donkeys
Bears
Pagodas - Subjects
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Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796 > Caricatures and cartoons
Monsters
Animals
Elephants
Donkeys
Bears
Pagodas
England > 1773
England > London > 1773
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8277304
- Object ID (OID)
- 10716127
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