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Anacreontick's in full song
Title
Anacreontick's in full song [graphic] / Js. Gillray invt. & fect.
Publication
London : Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, [1 December 1801]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; plate mark 24.3 x 32 cm, on sheet 28 x 36 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
One line of quoted text above image: "Whilst, snug in our club-room, we jovially 'twine the myrtle of Wenus with Bacchus's wine."
Provenance
From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"Eight elderly topers with pipes and glasses surround a small oblong table, on which are punch-bowl, wine-glasses, tobacco, &c. All are much caricatured; some sing, a parson sleeps, a dog howls. The room is lit by a chandelier; a bracket-clock points to 3.40, on it is carved a Bacchanalian figure of Time astride a cask. A bust portrait of Anacreon holding pen and paper is on the wall (left)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 10, 2017
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9764
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 282
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 505
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1801.
Etchings - England - London - 1801.
Aquatints - England - London - 1801.
Watermarks (Paper) - Turkey Mills J. Whatman.
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