The bachelor [graphic]

Description

Title: The bachelor [graphic]
Creator: Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Wigstead, Henry, artist.
Published / Created: [18 March 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. March 18, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title etched below image.
Four lines of text in two columns below design: Dead to the raptures of a wedded life ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
French translation of title, written in manuscript in a contemporary hand, follows English title: Le celibataire. Another annotation in French, in a different hand, written in bottom part of design.
Numbers "506" and "4" written in different, contemporary hands in lower right corner.
Publisher's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 4 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.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33.5 x 40 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1790
Aquatints England London 1790
Etchings England London 1790
Material: etching and aquatint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1790
England > London > 1790
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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