Gay's Fables [graphic].

Description

Title: Gay's Fables [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: as the act directs, Novr. 17th, 1787.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Robt. Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Abstract: An engraved writing sheet illustrated with seven scenes from Gay’s Fables, each titled above and with rhyming couplet below. At head, and the largest scene, is ‘The Shepherd and the Philosopher’; six smaller scenes form the right and left borders below. A garlanded oval, designed to carry a hand-inserted date-line, is engraved at the foot above the imprint
Description: Title engraved at top of plate, on either side of the image of "The shepherd and the philosopher."
Watermark: [...]anshaw.
Sheet annotated in ink with the name 'Thomas Harbidge' and the date 'Decr. 19. 1787' in the blank oval at foot. Written in manuscript in black ink at the center of the sheet are three passages, beginning with 'Education either makes or mars us, and governments as well as private families, are concerned in it’s [sic] consequences, abcde’, and concluding with 'Good books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age, they support us under solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves'.
Provenance: Pickering & Chatto; May 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 45.8 x 36 cm, on sheet 49.7 x 40 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Early works to 1800
Etchings England London 1787
Engravings England London 1787
Pictorial lettersheets
Juvenilia
Stationery
Decorated papers
Writing paper
Watermarks (Paper)
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic): Fables
Subjects: Gay, John, 1685-1732
Fables > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
Fables
England > London > 1787
18th century

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