Walker, James, approximately 1748-approximately 1822, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1 January 1792]
Call Number:
792.01.01.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Holy Family resting during the Flight into Egypt; St Joseph standing beside the donkey, drawing his cloak around him, the Virgin laying the infant Jesus on a rock, holding the edge of His garment in right hand, gesturing with the other, two cherubs standing together and watching to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Arise, and take the young child, and his mother, and flee into Egypt
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in Russian and English., Bible citation "St. Math. Chap. 2, Vir. 13" follows title in English; translation of the same follows title in Russian., Dedications to Catherine II engraved beneath each title, in Russian and English. Dedication in English: Dedicated to her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second, Empress and Autocratrix of all the Russias, by her most devoted and very humble servant, James Walker., From a series of prints published by Walker in 1792: A collection of prints, from the most celebrated pictures in the gallery of her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second., "From the original picture in the Imp. Gallery.", and In Russian and English.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1792, as the act directs by Jas. Walker and W. Hodges, Queen Street, May Fair and R. Blamire, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796 and Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Family, Biblical events, Donkeys, and Putti
"Husband and wife dressing in a bedroom, the tent-shaped bed-curtains forming a background. The woman is thin and has a mole on her face, the man broad, but their deficiencies are similar. She stands (left), about to raise her shift and adjust false posteriors. A false bust, false teeth, and wig, simulating natural curls, are on the table behind her, on which are also the man's wig and an eye in a tumbler of water. Both are bald. He sits (right) in shirt and breeches, about to put on a pair of stockings with false calves of fleece. Both register sour dissatisfaction with themselves and each other."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Persons in wedlock should be properly matched
Description:
Titles from text in French and English below image., Later state, with altered publication line, of no. 13455 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Print stamped with price: Price 1s., On sheet with watermark: Smith & Allnut 1818., and ounted to: 44.1 x 37.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 20, 1820 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bedrooms, Baldness, Marriage, Wigs, Dentures, and Artificial eyes
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Giardini; a young woman seated on a pedestal, touching a lyre on a table with her left hand, holding a quill pen in her right, turned and looking towards a putto who stands behind her; on the right, Cupid seated on floor, holding an arrow, covering his face with hands; in an oval; after Cipriani; state before artists' names, title, printer's name."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. Giardini
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 7 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"A woman with a veil, standing in profile to right, holding a tomb in form of a large pot; on the right, a winged naked child, mourning by the side of the pedestal, hiding his face under a veil, looking down, placing his torch upside down; after Cipriani; second state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; top corners cut off., and On page numbered 22 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].