Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated. Shakespere [sic] [graphic].

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Title: Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated. Shakespere [sic] [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Jany 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "Bottom sits in an arm-chair directed to the left, wearing spectacles on his ass's forehead. In his right hand is a piece of charcoal in a holder, in his left is a paper, which he is studying. Above his head is etched 'Apollo'. On the left stands a man looking over Bottom's shoulder, his fists clenched. Behind (right) two students (seated) draw from the antique, a nude male statue on a pedestal just above the level of their heads."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image, a line from a speech by the character Quince, from Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream, iii.1.121.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Six lines of verse below title: "W_hen Phidias or Raph'el shall chuse to repair, I_ncog to our fine modern Artists' fam'd School, L_ost in wonder to see stuck in Genius's Chair T_he Block which now fills it) a formal old Fool. O_ ff again with this sneering Remark they will go, N_o marvel your Pupils old Friend are so so". JP."
Initial letters of each line form word 'Wilton.'
Provenance: Walter Schatzki.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.3 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 33 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Acrostics
Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Wilton, Joseph, 1722-1803
Richards, John Inigo, 1731-1810
Phidias, approximately 500 B.C.-approximately 430 B.C.
Raphael, 1483-1520.
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Apollo (Deity)
Subject (Topic): Artists' materials
Artists' models
Sculptors
Subjects: Wilton, Joseph, 1722-1803 > Caricatures and cartoons
Richards, John Inigo, 1731-1810 > Caricatures and cartoons
Phidias, approximately 500 B.C.-approximately 430 B.C.
Raphael, 1483-1520
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Apollo (Deity)
Artists' materials
Artists' models
Sculptors
England > 1794
England > London > 1794

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