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Charles Maucourt
Night amusement
London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street, [between 1765 and 1794?
mezzotint, hand colored
image: 137 x 113 mm; plate mark: 152 x 113 mm; sheet: 166 x 133 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.719
Notes
Robert Sayer traded at the above address from ca. 1765 until the time of his death in 1794.
Various other versions of this mezzotint have been recorded, including a print in the Library of Congress collection which is lettered: The Queen's Arms, a Night's Amusement / Maucourt Invt et Fecit. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Augst 13, 1764.
Various other versions of this mezzotint have been recorded, including a print in the Library of Congress collection which is lettered: The Queen's Arms, a Night's Amusement / Maucourt Invt et Fecit. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Augst 13, 1764.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a group of four men smiling drunkenly, one in a cocked hat with left arm around the neck of a companion who holds a small glass, offering him a bowl, another behind at left holding a tankard, the fourth behind at right, with a violin on a shelf with music on the tilted top of the cupboard, and a cello propped against it.
Associated names
Maucourt, Charles, d. 1768, designer.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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