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Appointment
Title
Appointment [graphic] / painted by G Morland.
Publication
London : Pubd. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, [July 1792]
Physical Description
1 print : mezzotint with stipple engraving ; oval design 287 x 220 mm, plate mark 357 x 254 mm, on sheet 39 x 27 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title engraved below image.
Reissue by Fores, with original imprint partially burnished from plate.
Four lines of verse below title: To the soft summons of her love, Eliza raptrous bends her way; While stillness lulls the neighbr'ing grove, And Cynthia glimmers thro' the spray.
Companion print: Disappointment.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Summary
In a grove, a fashionably dressed young woman stands alone pointing at the watch in her hand, a look of happy anticipcation on her face.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 12, 2007
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1792.
Mezzotints - England - London - 1792.
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