A scene in Paris on the Boulevard des Italiens outside a coffee house (or French café) in which fashionable ladies (several wearing large hoop earrings) and gentlemen sit in ladderback chairs or stand about in conversation. One man looks through his quizzing glass at the scene. One woman sits with her two children and a dog. On the left a coachman looks done from his box
Description:
Title and date from contemporary manuscript annotations on a separate piece of paper pasted below the image., Sheet trimmed within plate., Watermark., and Mounted to 33 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Carriages & coaches, Children, Clothing & dress, Dogs, and Quizzing glasses
"Cul-de-lampe of a woman and two Spirits; a woman seated on clouds, holding two Spirits in form of naked children in her arms; the Spirit on the right, holding a enamel with both hands; the other Spirit on the left, seated facing back, counting coins; a bust of woman at extreme right; after Cipriani; illustration to the second volume of 'Marlborough gems' by Dr William Cole (1790-1791); proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue copy, Cf. museum registration no. 1852,0313.41., and On leaf numbered 30 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
"Cul-de-lampe of a woman and two Spirits; a woman seated on clouds, holding two Spirits in form of naked children in her arms; the Spirit on the right, holding a enamel with both hands; the other Spirit on the left, seated facing back, counting coins; a bust of woman at extreme right; after Cipriani; illustration to the second volume of 'Marlborough gems' by Dr William Cole (1790-1791); proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue copy, Cf. museum registration no. 1852,0313.41., On page numbered 30 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils]., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; sheet 11.6 x 13.2., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.