"Portrait; almost half-length directed and looking ahead to left, wearing a queue wig and a plain coat with a large badge of a maltese cross; in an oval frame within a rectangle; after Loutherbourg."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching, à la poupée ; sheet 29.2 x 20.1 cm (trimmed within plate mark)., and Printed on wove paper.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 23d, 1794, by V. & R. Green, No. 13 Berners Street, & Chr. de Mechel in Basil, Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Clerfayt, François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, comte de, 1733-1798,
"A procession of the rich; a horse-drawn open-top golden carriage travels to the left, surrounded by figures personifying traits of the rich, many with bloated bellies; Fortune sits on top of carriage, slinging gold coins around her, into the held up garments of the memebers of the procession, Pluto sit behind on carriage; diseased figures crawl by side of carriage; Nemesis watches from cloud at top right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumphus divitiarum
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.104., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Mounted on page 130 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 on laid paper ; sheet 21.3 x 31.3 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A procession of the rich; a horse-drawn open-top golden carriage travels to the left, surrounded by figures personifying traits of the rich, many with bloated bellies; Fortune sits on top of carriage, slinging gold coins around her, into the held up garments of the memebers of the procession, Pluto sit behind on carriage; diseased figures crawl by side of carriage; Nemesis watches from cloud at top right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumphus divitiarum
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.104., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., and Tipped in at page 103 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.
"A procession of the poor; a horse-drawn cart travels to the left, pulled by two donkeys, surrounded by figures personifying traits of the poor; Poverty sits at top of cart, half naked and meagre, behind her sit Misfortuen, and in front Memory, Experience, Hope, and Industry, who hands out instruments of manual labour, Diligence leads the donkey holding up a whip, other allegorical figures including Labour and Solicitude amongst shabbily clothed procession, Misery and Beggary follow behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumphus paupertatis
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.105., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Mounted on page 130 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 on laid paper ; sheet 21.3 x 27 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A procession of the poor; a horse-drawn cart travels to the left, pulled by two donkeys, surrounded by figures personifying traits of the poor; Poverty sits at top of cart, half naked and meagre, behind her sit Misfortuen, and in front Memory, Experience, Hope, and Industry, who hands out instruments of manual labour, Diligence leads the donkey holding up a whip, other allegorical figures including Labour and Solicitude amongst shabbily clothed procession, Misery and Beggary follow behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumphus paupertatis
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.105., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Tipped in at page 103 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.
