Connoisseurs examining a collection of George Morland's [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Connoisseurs examining a collection of George Morland's [graphic]
- Contributor
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
- Published / Created
- [1818?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
- Abstract
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"A corner of a room hung with unframed canvasses is a background for five men, all in profile to the left. Four closely inspect a picture of two vast pigs lying outside a thatched hovel. The foremost, an old man, peers through spectacles held reversed; in his left hand is a 'Catalogue of Pictures by Morl...'. He is identified in the 'Illustrative Description', 1830, and by Grego, as Captain Baillie, the engraver and connoisseur, by Wright and Evans conjecturally as J. J. Angerstein. Behind is a profile identified as that of Mitchell, a banker; next is Caleb Whitefoord, looking through his glass (see BMSats 8169, 8725, &c). Behind him stands George Baker, a patron of English water-colour painters [print collector and bibliophile], holding a paper on which the word 'Pigs' is legible. Standing apart, with a grossly fat nan pressed on a canvas which he raises from the wall, is Mortimer, a picture-dealer and restorer. He puffs and spits from coarse protruding lips a picture, the head and shoulders of an enormous boar. The pictures burlesques of Morland's manner: (1) A grossly fat butcher inspects a fat pig displayed by a farmer; (2) a man with a pitchfork drives pigs from a stackyard; (3) a yokel embraces a haymaker in a barn while a braying donkey looks in at the door; (4) a mounted sportsman at an alehouse door takes a glass from a hugely fat woman; (5) a ragged woman with an infant on her back tells a stolid farmer his fortune. On the floor, in front of the connoisseurs, an empty frame and a bulging portfolio labelled 'Sketches from Nature by G. Morland' lean against the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Temporary local subject terms: Art galleries. - Provenance
- Sterling Print Collection; March 1992;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 28.6 x 22 cm, on sheet 35 x 24 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 818.00.00.60
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1818
Etchings England London 1818 - Material
- etching and aquatint with stipple ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1818
England > London > 1818
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
- Catalog Record
- 9305471
- Object ID (OID)
- 10967986
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