The lampoon [graphic].

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Description

Title
The lampoon [graphic].
Published / Created
[ca. 1740]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Satire on a man advertising for a woman; the composition bears a close resembalance to British Museum satires 2349. The man with a pronounced nose and wearing a large three-cornered hat is walking in a landscape, to right, holding a dripping pen and reading from a paper, "To ye Advertiser. Sr. Please to Insert this Seven time at 2s. each / Whereas a Lady Signs LM, if she approves of this Picutre & to Live in Woods & Groves Meeting"; he is saying "Here's a Back Broad & Pithy. Heres Legs Hard & Brawny Girl. Hem! As Sound as a Roach.". In the background, to right, a winged ass flies off carrying a naked woman holding a liberty staff and saying, "He's a Man every Inch. I assure ye Stout vigrous active & long"; a barrel, labelled "Jointure", leaks from its bung hole into a lake. A jester's bauble, a scroll labelled "Settlement" and a large book rest in the foreground to right. The scene is surrounded by an elaborate cartouche with a goose at lower left, and title and verses in a lower"--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from item.
Print made by: Anonymous. Cf. British Museum online catalogue.
Lettered with captions in the image and the title, followed by a quotation from Henry Carey's anti-Walpole satirical opera, The Dragon of Wantley (1737). Three lines of verse below title: Pigs shall not be, so fond as we, We will out coo the Turtle Dove, And Sporting Sparrows we'll outlove.
British Museum catalogue notes that "Edward Hawkins described two related prints then (mid 19th century) in the collection of Thomas Haviland Burke, one of which was identified as a portrait of Ralph Courteville, i.e. Ralph Freeman, journalist and supporter of Walpole, the other as "The Rev. Mr. Scott, author of Anti-Sejanus."
Provenance
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 32.2 x 20 cm, on sheet 35 x 24 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 724 C2 738

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures
Etchings England London 1740
Material
etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Courteville, Raphael, -1772
Subjects
Courteville, Raphael, -1772 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > London > 1740

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Identifiers

Catalog Record
9948871803408651
Object ID (OID)
10984300

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