Accession number
PML 145850.186
Published
[S.l. : s.n., 17--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Engraving after a painting by Antoine Watteau.
Inserted as item 186 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).
Library's copy partially trimmed within platemark.
Engraving after a painting by Antoine Watteau.
Inserted as item 186 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).
Library's copy partially trimmed within platemark.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 189 x 151 mm; sheet: 211 x 173 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an oval composition with monkey in a dressing robe, seated at a canvas on an easel, facing right, with his palette held at side and his chin resting on his left hand as he inspects his handiwork; on the wall directly over his head hangs a painting with three figures.
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