Accession number
PML 145850.199
Creator
Mosley, Charles, ca. 1720-ca. 1770, etcher.
Published
[London : s.n.], Sept. 7, 1751.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
With six columns of engraved verse below: Just such a Figure does ye Rake / When risen in a Morning, make / Snip shews his Bill, & Money prays / And Scrape ye Barber opes his Case / While Sally Trip, ye Mill'ners Maid / Hopes that her Mistress may be paid / The Beau there views his ugly Face / And fancies it has ev'ry Grace / Sharp, when behind his Master's back / Will in his Cordials have a Snack / Such is the Company you See / Honour the Rake at his Levee.
Signed at lower left, "C. Mosley sculp" followed by publication line, "According to Act of Parliamt Sept 7 1751".
Inserted as item 199 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 trimmed within plate mark.
With six columns of engraved verse below: Just such a Figure does ye Rake / When risen in a Morning, make / Snip shews his Bill, & Money prays / And Scrape ye Barber opes his Case / While Sally Trip, ye Mill'ners Maid / Hopes that her Mistress may be paid / The Beau there views his ugly Face / And fancies it has ev'ry Grace / Sharp, when behind his Master's back / Will in his Cordials have a Snack / Such is the Company you See / Honour the Rake at his Levee.
Signed at lower left, "C. Mosley sculp" followed by publication line, "According to Act of Parliamt Sept 7 1751".
Inserted as item 199 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 trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 243 x 351 mm; sheet: 263 x 361 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the interior of a young man's bedroom, in the background is a large bed, through an opening in the curtains of which a woman is seen lying, half naked. The Rake is in front, in a dishevelled robe, stretching his body with arms above his head. A tailor advances to him, and, making in obsequious bow, presents a very long bill. A barber is opening a case of razors. A lewd-looking young woman, a milliner, carrying a box, is subject to the familiarity of a heavy-faced man in a laced cocked hat; he chucks her under the chin, and lifts the brim of her hat. Another man admires his own features as reflected in a mirror. At a cupboard in the wall of the room a ragged man-servant is slyly drinking from a glass. On a table lie "E: Rochester's Poems ", and a picture of " Ve[ri]us Sf Bacchus", a snuff-box with a medallion inside the lid, two bottles of medicine, and two large pill-boxes. A dog carries off between his teeth a woman's muff at lower right.
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