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1. Anacreontick's in full song [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1801]
- Call Number:
- 801.12.01.09+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Eight elderly topers with pipes and glasses surround a small oblong table, on which are punch-bowl, wine-glasses, tobacco, &c. All are much caricatured; some sing, a parson sleeps, a dog howls. The room is lit by a chandelier; a bracket-clock points to 3.40, on it is carved a Bacchanalian figure of Time astride a cask. A bust portrait of Anacreon holding pen and paper is on the wall (left)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One line of quoted text above image: "Whilst, snug in our club-room, we jovially 'twine the myrtle of Wenus with Bacchus's wine.", Numbered in black ink lower right in an unknown hand: 505. Remnants of former blue mounting on verso., and 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 31.4 cm, on sheet 32.9 x 34.9 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Anacreon,
- Subject (Topic):
- Anacreontea, Clergy, Chandeliers, Clocks & watches, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Intoxication, Pictures, Pipes (Smoking), Supernatural beings, Tobacco, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Anacreontick's in full song [graphic]