Accession number
PML 145850.68
Published
[England] : [publisher not identified], [1715?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Engraved illustration, probably created for the Duke of Buckingham's adaptation of John Fletcher's play "The chances" and possibly removed from a copy of the 1715 illustrated edition of the Duke of Buckingham's collected works published in London by Samuel Briscoe.
Mounted as item 68 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Engraved illustration, probably created for the Duke of Buckingham's adaptation of John Fletcher's play "The chances" and possibly removed from a copy of the 1715 illustrated edition of the Duke of Buckingham's collected works published in London by Samuel Briscoe.
Mounted as item 68 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 171 x 104 mm; trimmed sheet: 182 x 112 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in ink at upper right: Vol. 2d.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Engraving shows an interior with a woman standing in the foreground with a baby in her arms, flanked by two men, one at right who holds up a jewel, and another at left who pours a glass of wine from a flagon. In the background, a woman is accosted by a group of men.
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