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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
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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.
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.
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