Strephon & Chloe [graphic]

Description

Title: Strephon & Chloe [graphic]
Alternative Title: Strephon and Chloe
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 July 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub'd July 1, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccdilly [sic]
Abstract: "Satire on age and pretension: a caricatured elderly couple dancing together; behind two people laugh at them through a window; on the wall to right is a bill lettered, "Assembly / Hockley in the Hole / H Hog master of the ceremonies"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title etched below image.
Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 28 November 1772 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 4755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Remnant of former publisher's street address left unburnished below image: No. 134.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides with partial loss of statement of responsibility from right edge. Complete statement of responsibility from earlier state in the British Museum.
Watermark.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki; Feb. 1961;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 x 28.9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1801
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1772
England > London > 1801

Access: Public
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