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Palemon and Lavinia
Title
Palemon and Lavinia [graphic] / J.C. Esqe. delt.
Publication
London : Publishd. Jany. 23d, 1805, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, [23 January 1805]
Physical Description
1 print : etching & aquatint ; plate mark 25.5 x 35.7 cm, on sheet 30 x 40 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Two lines of quoted text following title: "He saw her charming; but he saw not half" "the charms her downcast modesty conceal'd."
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
"A loutish yokel (l.), holding a pitchfork, grins avidly at a hideous and elderly country woman who crouches behind a stile (r.), her features twisted in a sly grimace. In the background (l.) men reap a corn-field, and corn-stooks cover a more distant hill. Lavinia is framed in foliage, with autumn leaves and a withered tree."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 23, 2008
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10480
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 325
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1805.
Etchings - England - London - 1805.
Aquatints - England - London - 1805.
Watermarks (Paper) - J. Whatman
Watermarks (Paper) - J. Whatman Turkey Mills.
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