"No. 6. A ballad-singer (three-quarter length) bawls a ballad; at her back is an infant, another is beside her, both bawling. Her song: 'What's Life without Passion, sweet Passion of Love'. An elderly bearded Jew is close beside her, hands clasped, looking up in ecstasy. Beneath the design: 'Melody produces Rapture, as exemplified in the Jew Cloathsman's rapturous attention to the Vocal strains of the Ballad-singer & her Family.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Two lines of text below image: Melody produces rapture, as exemplified in the Jew cloathsman's rapturous attention to the vocal strains of the ballad-singer & her family., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Cf. State with plate no. See No 9628 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: ballad-singer -- Used clothing -- Jews -- Singing -- Children.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
