"Bottom sits in an arm-chair directed to the left, wearing spectacles on his ass's forehead. In his right hand is a piece of charcoal in a holder, in his left is a paper, which he is studying. Above his head is etched 'Apollo'. On the left stands a ma...
Description:
Title from caption below image, a line from a speech by the character Quince, from Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream, iii.1.121.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Wilton, Joseph, 1722-1803, Richards, John Inigo, 1731-1810, Phidias, approximately 500 B.C.-approximately 430 B.C., Raphael, 1483-1520., Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), and Apollo (Deity)
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Artists' models, and Sculptors
Trial proof of the portrait of French sculptor Edme Bouchardon, half-length, sitting in armchair, head turned to right; in oval frame, on pedestal, with sculptor's tools; state with face only lightly sketched in, before any lettering
"Portrait of French sculptor Edme Bouchardon, half-length, sitting in armchair, head turned to right; in oval frame, on pedestal, with sculptor's tools"--British Museum online catalogue
"Mrs. Damer, seated in profile to the left, chisels the posterior of a large and realistic Apollo standing in profile to the left holding a spear, the left arm extended. A little girl (left) in 'profil perdu', gazes at the Apollo in astonishment. On a...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by Wm Holland, Garrick's Richard, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828 and Pan (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Artists' studios, Sculptors, British, Sculpture, and Spears
A monkey dressed as an artist, wearing with a soft cap, jacket, and apron, works on a bust with chisel and mallet in hand. Other tools of his trade as a sculptor are in a basket behind him and at his feet
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Dean & Co., Threadneedle Street
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Chisels & mallets, Monkeys, and Sculptors
