L'amour du temps present [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- L'amour du temps present [graphic].
- Contributor
- Noël Frères, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1807?]
- Publication Place
- A Paris
- Publisher
- Chez Noel Fréres rue des Prétres, St. Germain l'Auxerois, no. 22. Rue St. Jacques no. 16
- Abstract
-
Allegorical caricature: Two couples approach a Cupid-like statue of a man with wings that has come alive; he wears a wig and carries a bow and a torch (extinguishing as he holds in downwards); he stands on a plinth hung with bags of money, an open chest with coins at its base and to the side sits a cat. On the tree behind (right) a sign reading "Coeur a vendreau, a louer au plus offrant &c dernier encherisseur" hangs from a heart pinned to the trunk on which a snake is curled hissing at the animated statue. The two couples are mismatched in age, in the center a handsome young officer stands with a withered old woman and on the left, a young woman with a fat, old man who holds a bag of coins. On the far left a turkey follows the procession
- Description
-
Title engraved below image.
"Déposé à la Bibliolthêque."--Following imprint.
Date from citation in: Journal général de la littérautre de France, 12è année, p. 58.
Mounted on secondary support. With mirror image ms. notes on verso, illegible. - Provenance
- 2000.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 20.3 x 26 cm
- Language
-
French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 807.00.00.89
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Allegorical prints
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) France 1807
Etchings France Paris 1807 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Avarice
Cat
Couples
Snakes - Subjects
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Avarice
Cat
Couples
Snakes
France > 1807
France > Paris > 1807
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
- 14052288
- Object ID (OID)
- 16733278