In an open landscape, Harlequin is sitting on a rock, holding a little boy across his lap and whipping his bare bottom with a birch rod. Columbine, coming up from behind them, tries to intervene
Alternative Title:
Harlequin
Description:
Title from item., Dated based on another print in this series: Columbine. Harlequin., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of most of the plate number in upper right corner., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Columbine. Will whipping ever mend a child? ... Harlequin. Pray hold yr. tongue how shoud you know ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Pro patria.
Title from captions below both images., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Reversible head image labeled "Courtship" in one direction and "Marriage" in the other. Title taken from title on each side of image., Dated by costume., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: horn on crowned shield, with initials LVG below.
Front and back views of a bronze statue of a woman carrying a pig in one hand and a child in the other, to be sacrificed. The object was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., "Ex aere" etched twice in lower part of plate, once below each image., "Tab. II"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 192 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 19.7 x 17.4 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Front and back views of a bronze statue of a woman carrying a pig in one hand and a child in the other, to be sacrificed. The object was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., "Ex aere" etched twice in lower part of plate, once below each image., "Tab. II"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 155 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 19.6 x 17.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Figures painted on the bottoms and sides of pots used for funerary rights. These objects were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., "Tab. V"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 39 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 26.8 x 20.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Figures painted on the bottoms and sides of pots used for funerary rights. These objects were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., "Tab. V"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 51 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; oval sheet 11.1 x 11.6 cm., Imperfect; only the upper image of the underside of a pot is present, the rest of the plate having been trimmed away., With manuscript note in ink below image, on mounting page: Bottom of the vase above., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy in reverse of a figure in: Taste a-la-mode 1745., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, ca. 1745., and Annotated on verso in contemporary hand: February 1760. Below it, in another contemporary hand: In Cole 1751.
In an open landscape, Harlequin is seated on a large rock, holding Columbine in his lap. They are posed in a kiss
Alternative Title:
Columbine
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from companion print: Columbine ; Harlequin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Harlequin. Is not this earnest? -- Han't I swore ... Columbine. Ay! if 'twoud last I should be blest ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 18 x 16 cm; window mounted to 23 x 19 cm.
Spearhead at center (numbered "I") with two chisel-like weapons or tools on either side (numbered "II" and "III"). The objects were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Ex aere" etched at the bottom of each of the three images., "Tab. XVII"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 138 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Spearhead at center (numbered "I") with two chisel-like weapons or tools on either side (numbered "II" and "III"). The objects were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Ex aere" etched at the bottom of each of the three images., "Tab. XVII"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 193 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 26 x 18.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
