Accession number
PML 145850.158
Creator
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, etcher, publisher.
Published
[London?] : Sold by G. Bickham, [17--
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Ten lines of engraved verse by Bishop Francis Atterbury below image, in two columns, continuing: Can with resistless art employ / This fan, in meaner hands, would prove / An engine of small force in love: / Yet she, with graceful air and mien, / (Not to be told, or safely seen!) / Directs its wanton motions so, / That it wounds more than Cupid's bow: / Gives coolness to the matchless dame, / To every other breast a flame.
Mounted as item 158 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).
Ten lines of engraved verse by Bishop Francis Atterbury below image, in two columns, continuing: Can with resistless art employ / This fan, in meaner hands, would prove / An engine of small force in love: / Yet she, with graceful air and mien, / (Not to be told, or safely seen!) / Directs its wanton motions so, / That it wounds more than Cupid's bow: / Gives coolness to the matchless dame, / To every other breast a flame.
Mounted as item 158 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: 78 x 75 mm; plate mark: 100 x 80 mm; sheet: 128 x 107 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a seated young woman holding a fan, the leaves of which are signed, "Geo Bickham".
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