A meeting of connoisseurs Assemblée des connoisseurs / [graphic] =
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Description
- Title
- A meeting of connoisseurs Assemblée des connoisseurs / [graphic] =
- Alternative Title
- Assemblée des connisseurs
- Creator
- Williamson, Thomas, active 1801-1825, printmaker
- Contributor
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Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, artist.
Cribb, Robert Samuel, 1755-1827, publisher. - Published / Created
- [2 February 1807]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Feby. 2, 1807, by R. Cribb, 288 Holborn
- Abstract
-
A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apollo but with very different features, the left hand holding the stick of a broom which supports the pose. A fifth connoisseur reaches up to alter the position of the model's head. The artist stands beside his canvas facing the invaders, the left hand, holding palette and brushes, rests on the canvas; he sucks his mahl-stick with a gloomy scowl. On the extreme right a cat sits in a cradle, behind which an alarmed little boy hides. The artist's wife, with an infant in her arms, faces the fire with her back to the visitors whose unwelcome intrusion is apparent. Behind is a bed with drawn curtains. Three casts from the antique decorate the bare room. The model's coat and hat lie on the ground (right). On the far left in the foreground a dog urinates against two canvases leaning against the wall
- Description
-
Titles in English and French etched below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum. - Provenance
- Grosvenor Prints; January 2022.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 43.2 x 52.8 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 807.02.02.01++
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Stipple engravings England London 1807 - Material
- stipple engraving with etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Apollo
Black people
Artists' studios
Artists' models
Artists' materials
Artists
Brooms & brushes
Windows
Canopy beds
Cradles
Infants
Fireplaces
Boys
Cats
Dogs
Urination - Subjects
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Apollo (Deity)
Black people
Artists' studios
Artists' models
Artists' materials
Artists
Brooms & brushes
Windows
Canopy beds
Cradles
Infants
Fireplaces
Boys
Cats
Dogs
Urination
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15815359
- Object ID (OID)
- 33202628