Appointment [graphic]

Description

Title: Appointment [graphic]
Contributor: Morland, George, 1763-1804, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [July 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: In a grove, a fashionably dressed young woman stands alone pointing at the watch in her hand, a look of happy anticipcation on her face
Description: Title engraved below image.
Reissue by Fores, with original imprint partially burnished from plate.
Four lines of verse below title: To the soft summons of her love, Eliza raptrous bends her way; While stillness lulls the neighbr'ing grove, And Cynthia glimmers thro' the spray.
Companion print: Disappointment.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : oval design 287 x 220 mm, plate mark 357 x 254 mm, on sheet 39 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Mezzotints England London 1792
Material: mezzotint with stipple engraving ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clocks & watches
Happiness
Fences
Women
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Clocks & watches
Happiness
Fences
Women
Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

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