publish'd according to act of Parliament, May 3d, [approximately 1743]
Call Number:
743.05.03.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an elegant room, ten elderly getlemen with caricatured faces and in various stages of decrepitude are seated in a semi-circle talking to one another. The gentleman in the center has his gouty foot supported on a small stool. In the background, three pictures in ornate frames hang on the wall. The one in the center shows infant Bacchus in his car driven by Cupid; Bacchus holds a glass in one hand and his thyrsus in the other. Cupid's bow and arrows are crushed under the wheels. The picture on the left shows a fox looking up at grapes hanging from a tree and on the right is a picture of the fox with a cropped tail, both allusions probable to Fables of Jean de la Fontaines
Alternative Title:
Assembly of old bachelors
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date based on the companion print: The assembly of old maids., 'Price 6d.'--Following imprint., Six lines of verse in three columns below title: The bloom of beauty other years demands, nor will be gather'd with such wither'd hands ... Dryden., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 25 x 29 cm., and With a clipping (8 x 12 cm.) from Political Magazine, Vol. X, Feb. 1786: "A tax on Batchelors."
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 26, 1743.
Call Number:
743.03.26.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an elegant room, eleven old women with caricatured faces sit in a semi-circle. A twelfth woman is standing behind the chair of the woman on extreme left and whispers in her ear. A little lapdog stands in the front of the women yapping at them. In the background, the pediment of the door in the center of the wall is decorated with a bust of a woman in contemporary dress, with a crescent in her hair. The walls are hung with pictures, including winged Time and Cupid
Description:
Title from caption below image., 'Price 6d.'--Following imprint., Six lines of verse in three columns below title: To-morrow and her works defy, lay hold upon the present hour ... Dryden., A companion print to: The assembly of old batchelors., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 25 x 29 cm.
