A representation of contrasting feelings and emotions in two separate oval frames on one plate. In the left one, a dejected-looking middle-aged man is gazing ahead with unseeing eyes. His chin rests on the handle of the cane that he is holding up with both hands, chapeau-bras. His forehead is creased with worry and his mouth downturned. In the frame on the right, a stout middle-aged man laughs joyously pointing to sad man on the left
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later state, with the background mezzotinted, of a print made and published by Thomas Bakewell in 1737., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Contrasts., and Window mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by Henry Parker, opposite Birchin Lane, Cornhill
