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Les oyes de Frere-Philippe conte tiré de La Fontaine = Friar-Phillip's geese : a tale from La Fontaine
Title
Les oyes de Frere-Philippe [graphic] : conte tiré de La Fontaine = Friar-Phillip's geese : a tale from La Fontaine / H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; engrav'd by Thos. Watson.
Publication
London : Publish'd Octr. 3d, 1782, by T. Watson, No. 33 Strand, [3 October 1782]
Physical Description
1 print : stipple engraving with etching in sepia ink ; circular image 31 cm, on sheet 41.2 x 37 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title in French and English etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Six lines of verse, in French and English, etched below each title. Verses in English begin: Oh the sweet bird, cries the lad in the utmost transport of joy, prithee sing a little ...
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Summary
"Two girls in black capes and chip hats, their hair dressed high with ringlets, playing guitars, with a couple of dogs for audience, while a young man in a plumed hat ogles them but is pushed aside by a horrified monk, behind to right, a norman castle in the background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Friar-Phillip's geese : a tale from La Fontaine
Format
Images
Language
English; French
Added to Catalog
June 25, 2020
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Illustrations.
Stipple engravings - England - London - 1782.
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