The old mans wish [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. July 26th, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
[26 July 1792]

Physical Description:

1 print : mezzotint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 357 x 253 mm, on sheet 39 x 28 cm

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Four lines of verse in two columns on each side of title: If I live to grow old, for I find I go down. ... And a clearly young girl to rub my bald pate'
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954; Acquisitions no.: 954-5-5-6.

Abstract:

On the right a balding man sits at a well-laid table opposite a parson. The bald man has his arm around the waist of a pretty young woman who stands to his right with her one hand on his head. The parson toastst the couple. A dog sits on the floor near the table on the left. In the background are two pictures that amplify the subject of the print: above the hearth is a picture of a horse, and on the wall to the left (beside a ornate mirror) is a portrait of a bald man in an oval frame.

Associated Names:

Fores, S. W. [Publisher]

Topics:

Clergy
Couples
Dining rooms
Dogs
Eating & drinking
Fireplaces
Interiors
paintings
Tableware

Language:

English

Genre:

Mezzotints -- England -- London -- 1792
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1792

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

792.07.26.02+

Orbis Record:

7919317

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07519

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10957239

PID:

digcoll:550840