Love & wine [graphic]

Description

Title: Love & wine [graphic]
Alternative Title: Love and wine
Creator: Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 June 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published June 12th, 1787 by Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Abstract: A young man lounges against a young woman, as they sit on a sofa; she holds his right hand in hers. With the left hand he pours wine into her glass which she holds with her left as they exchange amorous looks. They are both partially disrobed. On the table in front of them is a bunch of grapes and an apple, an upturned glass, and playing cards
Description: Numbered '112' in lower right corner of plate.
Below the title, four lines of verse in two columns: Heighten'd by Bacchus see the amourous flair ...
Cf. British Museum Catalogue, v. 4, no. 4524 by Spooner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; July 1957;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.2 x 12 cm, on sheet 19 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1787
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Dionysus (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic): Card games
Couples
Playing cards
Seduction
Wine
Eating & drinking
Subjects: Card games > England
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Couples
Playing cards
Seduction
Wine
Eating & drinking
England > London > 1787

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