Music has charms to soothe a savage breast [graphic].
Contributor
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created
[2 June 1786]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published 2d June 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Description
Title etched below image. Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges. Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
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