Accession number
PML 145850.109
Published
[London?] : [s.n.], [17--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item; entire text transcribed.
Illustrated subscription receipt, being an etching with engraved caption text.
Mounted as item 109 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).
Illustrated subscription receipt, being an etching with engraved caption text.
Mounted as item 109 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 : etching ; image: 154 x 140 mm; plate mark: 189 x 160 mm; sheet: 218 x 188 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print in shows a female figure with the head of a cat standing beside a barrel topped by a large jug at left with a closed fan in her hand; in front of her, at right, a man with the head of a monkey stands regarding her with his hand pressed to his breast and a tricorne hand under his arm; behind him stands another monkey-headed figure holding a torch with an owl on his head, while in the background, three figures, including a man with a monkey's head holding a wineglass, a woman with a monkey's head holding a cat-headed infant in her arms, and a figure with the head of an ass, stand looking on.
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