print;
book-illustration;
book
- Museum number
- 1871,0114.81-91
- Title
- Object: A Dramatic History of Master Edward, Miss Ann, and Others
- Description
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"A Dramatic History of Master Edward, Miss Ann, and Others, the Extraordinaries of these Times, Collected from Zaphaniel's Original Papes. By George Alexander Stevens...A New Edition, Illustrated with Copper-Plates" (London, J. Murray) 1785; containing 11 prints illustrating curious or humorous scenes in the lives of various characters as described in the facing text (see curator's comments). Bound with letterpress titlepage, and 192 pages of text.
Etchings
- Production date
- 1785
- Dimensions
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Height: 193 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 105 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The plates illustrate the following subjects:
-- p. 7, case 1: The plate has been erroneously inscribed and bound here. For the relevant plate see that facing p. 29 showing a woman in bed, with a lobster biting a man's nose and perturbed domestic servant at left. This illustrates an anecdote related by Aldrovandus of a young woman in Sicily who observed a lobster taken by a fisherman, and moved by an earnest longing for it brought forth a lobster.
-- p. 12, XIII: Languis's tale of the woman biting the shoulder of a baker, showing the woman, the baker, and the husband in an interior, with three figures in the doorway behind them.
-- p. 21: showing a woman, seated at right, darning a stocking, with a man at centre rehearsing for his role as Othello, and a seated boy at left looking on.
-- p. 29: the plate has been erroneously inscribed and bound. For the relevant plate see that facing p. 7, showing a maid servant (Miss Shred) holding up a vessel to the lips of her mistress (Chloe), with a cat wreaking havoc on the table at left.
-- p. 36: a scene before a hearth, with one-legged Chelsea Pensioner showing a spot on the ground where he received injuries in battle
-- p. 41: fold-out plate with a scene similar to Hogarth's midnight modern conversation, showing the Choice Spirits farce
-- p. 57: showing the mimic Sam Foot in an overturned sedan chair with three other figures
-- p. 63: a lady sleeping on a chaise with a man entering through the door at left to wake her up
-- p. 118: scene in an inn, with a woman cross at having had porter spilled on her dress, a shocked cat in the foreground. Three men in tricorn hats by the fire, a man vomiting into his hat, and a servant tumbling down the stairs.
-- p. 124: showing a group of figures gathered in front of a building with a sign over the door reading "Slaugher, Surgeon & Man Midwife"
-- p. 148: a man and woman coming to blows in an elegant interior, with two older figures looking on
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Dramatic History of Master Edward, Miss Ann, and Others
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,0114.81-91