[The connoisseur and tired boy] [graphic]

Description

Title: [The connoisseur and tired boy] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Connoisseur
Creator: Dawe, Philip, printmaker
Contributor: Morland, Henry, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: published as the act directs 1st Novr. 1773.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Sayer
Abstract: "Satire on connoisseurs: a man holds up a candle to examine a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy; the candle flame is shielded by the man's hand."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title from later state described in the British Museum catalogue.
Early state. No title is present; the names of the artist, publisher, and printmaker are engraved directly beneath image; and the publication line with date is at the bottom of the plate. For a later state with title added and artist and printmaker names removed, published in 1776 by Sayer & Bennett, see No. 4621 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom.
Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: candlestick -- Yawns -- Painting: frame -- Candle lighting picture.
Matted to 72 x 56 cm.
Provenance: Old Print Shop.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 50 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 53 x 41 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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