A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her
Description:
Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson, With: Engraved title page for "A collection of songs with the musick by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London : Engrav'd and printed for the author in Tavistock-Street, Covent-Garden, 1727.", "The ornaments around the title page many also be by Hogarth, but I see no very good reason to thinks so"--Paulson, p. 71., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Not inserted by Mr. Nichols., and On page 47 in volume 1. Plate mark 9.6 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 17.3 x 10 cm.
A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her
Description:
Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson, With: Engraved title page for "A collection of songs with the musick by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London : Engrav'd and printed for the author in Tavistock-Street, Covent-Garden, 1727.", "The ornaments around the title page many also be by Hogarth, but I see no very good reason to thinks so"--Paulson, p. 71., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Frontispiece only.
A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his feet lie a set of bellows. On the wall is a framed picture of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing., Signed "George Cruikshank" lower right. The British Museum catalogue attributes the design to George's father Isaac in its description of the print engraved after this drawing. Cohn similarly suggests that this design "was probably the work chiefly of Isaac"., A drawing for the illustrated songsheet "Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily", published by Laurie & Whittle in 1807, which tells the tale of a servant Darby Daly who discovers the young Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, forces her seducer to marry her., Backed with Japanese tissue; with the title "The outraged husband" printed on mount., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10938., and Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1144.
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
