"And would'st thou turn the vile reproach on me?" [graphic] / J. Cd. Esqr. delt. ; Js. Gy. fect.

London : Publish'd Feby. 2d, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, [2 February 1807]

1 print : stipple engraving & etching with roulette ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 27.9 x 38 cm

wove paper

Title etched below image.

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.

"A grotesquely hideous man, lean and elderly, sits in an armchair addressing a comely young woman who stands demurely (l.), her pose accentuating her pregnancy. Behind them is an empty fireplace; on the chimney-piece is a Venus pudica flanked by cupids, one with a bow and arrow, the other with a torch. On the wall are two pictures; (l.) a cock and hen facing each other like fighting-cocks, and (r.) a horse in the last stage of decrepitude, assailed by carrion birds."--British Museum online catalogue.

English

August 04, 2015