A bit of flattery [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A bit of flattery [graphic]
- Creator
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1807?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg
- Abstract
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"A tall fashionably dressed portrait painter, holding his crescent-shaped hat under his arm, stands between his subject (right) and the whole length painting of her which leans against the wall (left). The lady is fantastically fat, with huge lips. She wears a short-waisted décollétee dress (though her waist is undiscernible), and holds in both hands a small parasol. On the canvas she is transformed into Juno pouring out a libation for Jove, an eagle clutching thunderbolts; she wears quasi-classical dress, with breast and arms bare; one sandalled foot rests on a cloud. Her bulk is scarcely modified; the likeness remains, though the contour of face and lips is improved. Two half length portraits also lean against the wall. The Irish painter declaims: "A famous hand Madam!!! Your Eyes indeed are featured there, but where's the sparkling moisture, shineing fluid in which they swim? the Picture indeed has your dimples, but wheres the swarm of hilling Cupids that should ambush there? the lips to are figured out, but where's [the] dew, the pouting ripeness that tempts the taste in the original; your breasts too!! What paint Heaven!!! presumtuos Man!" She says, with eyes coyly dropped: "Oh Mr Flanegan You flatter me!!"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Four lines of verse following title: Pray don't the lover let me ask, hid by fascine battery, steal hearts away and whats his mask, to be sure it is not flattery. Dibdin.
Plate numbered "107" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling cold."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Irish painter -- Parasol -- Female costume: 1807.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 48 in volume 2. - Provenance
- Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 24.4 x 34.4 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
- Collection Title
- V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Watermarks (Paper) C Wilmott 1819
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1807
England > London > 1807
19th century
C Wilmott > 1819
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
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
- Orbis Record
- 8568261
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192651