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1.
The charmers of the age [graphic]

Creator:
Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1 March 1782]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Lettered within image with the words in brackets added in pen and ink: "A Scale of feet" and below, "A B The Charmers of the Age: C. C. Prickt lines [shewing the rising] Height., On page 95 in volume 1. Sheet 190 x 252 mm., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Livesay's Copy
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1, 1782 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barbara 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Subject (Topic):
Audiences, Dancers, and Singers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The charmers of the age [graphic]

2.
Italian Jupiter, etc. [graphic]

Creator:
Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
published March 1798.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Sketches by Hogarth, including one of the dancer George Desnoyer, wearing helmet and skirt, dancing; a king and queen at top left, and a shield with child's head and wings to the right; copy after Hogarth
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered at the top right: Page 162., Illustration to the third volume of the supplement to John Ireland's 'Hogarth Illustrated' (?)., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand at bottom of print and continuing below print: See John Ireland's Supplement to Hogarth's Illustrated, &c 1798 page 162; in pencil above child with shield: 3., and On page 230 in volume 3.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Subject (Topic):
Dancers, Kings, and Queens
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Italian Jupiter, etc. [graphic]

3.
A.B. The charmers of the age [art original].

Creator:
Steevens, George, 1736-1800, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1742 and 1799]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A tracing by George Steevens of a print by Willaim Hogarth: Theatre stage with two dancers; on the left a woman (La Barbarina) jumps with her legs apart and on the right a man (George Desnoyer) stands with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles. With the text "C.C. Prickt lines shewing the rising Height" at the foot of the stage as in the first state and with a face on the sun
Alternative Title:
Charmers of the age
Description:
Title from item., Lengthy pencil note in William Windham's hand below: These two pieces viz. the one marked Qui Color albus erat and The Charmers of the age? are not prints but copies taken with a pen by Mr. Steevens, and given to me, together with many others, not copies, in return for those mentioned in his collection as given by me to him. [Signed] W.W. March 22d 1800., After Paulson, R. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 153., and On page 100 in volume 1.
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Subject (Topic):
Dancers, German, Italian, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A.B. The charmers of the age [art original].

4.
Charmers of the age [graphic].

Published / Created:
[30 May 1786]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, preceded by letters "A.B." and followed by "C.C. Prickt lines shew the rising Height.", Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Charmers of the Age See Nichols's Book, 3rd edition p. 258. Given to me by the Right Honble. Willm Windham., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: There is no scarcer plate in the whole collection. No more copies of it than this & Lord Orford's have been found., and On page 95 in volume 1. Sheet 188 x 263 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Subject (Topic):
Audiences, Dancers, and Singers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Charmers of the age [graphic].