The charmers of the age [graphic]

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Title: The charmers of the age [graphic]
Creator: Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker, publisher
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1 March 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd March 1, 1782 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
Abstract: "Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Lettered within image with the words in brackets added in pen and ink: "A Scale of feet" and below, "A B The Charmers of the Age: C. C. Prickt lines [shewing the rising] Height.
On page 95 in volume 1. Sheet 190 x 252 mm.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Livesay's Copy
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 190 x 252 mm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Satires (Visual works) England 1782
Aquatints England London 1782
Material: etching ;
Subject (Name): Campanini, Barbara 1721-1799
Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Subject (Topic): Audiences
Dancers
Singers
Subjects: Campanini, Barbara 1721-1799 > Caricatures and cartoons
Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
Audiences
Dancers
Singers
18th century
England > 1782
England > London > 1782
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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