A bit of flattery [graphic] / Williams fecit.

Creator:

Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London]
[Thomas Tegg]
[1807?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.4 x 34.4 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Four lines of verse following title: Pray don't the lover let me ask, hid by fascine battery, steal hearts away and whats his mask, to be sure it is not flattery. Dibdin.
Plate numbered "107" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling cold."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Irish painter -- Parasol -- Female costume: 1807.

Abstract:

"A tall fashionably dressed portrait painter, holding his crescent-shaped hat under his arm, stands between his subject (right) and the whole length painting of her which leans against the wall (left). The lady is fantastically fat, with huge lips. She wears a short-waisted décollétee dress (though her waist is undiscernible), and holds in both hands a small parasol. On the canvas she is transformed into Juno pouring out a libation for Jove, an eagle clutching thunderbolts; she wears quasi-classical dress, with breast and arms bare; one sandalled foot rests on a cloud. Her bulk is scarcely modified; the likeness remains, though the contour of face and lips is improved. Two half length portraits also lean against the wall. The Irish painter declaims: "A famous hand Madam!!! Your Eyes indeed are featured there, but where's the sparkling moisture, shineing fluid in which they swim? the Picture indeed has your dimples, but wheres the swarm of hilling Cupids that should ambush there? the lips to are figured out, but where's [the] dew, the pouting ripeness that tempts the taste in the original; your breasts too!! What paint Heaven!!! presumtuos Man!" She says, with eyes coyly dropped: "Oh Mr Flanegan You flatter me!!"."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance)--19th century.--CtY-LW
Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1807.
Watermarks (Paper)--1817.--CtY-LW
Watermarks (Paper)--C Wilmott--1819.--CtY-LW

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.

Call Number:

Folio 75 W87 807 v.1

Orbis Record:

8568261

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr13854

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10915

OID:

16192651

PID:

digcoll:4046513