print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.3.54
- Title
- Object: Life and Death contrasted - or, an essay on Woman
- Description
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Allegory of mortality, with a standing woman, half, on the right, as a skeleton holding an arrowe in front of a monument with funereal biblical quotations, on the left in fashionable clothing, a volume of 'Romances and Novels' at her feet together with playing-cards and a book on 'Gaming' anelegant garden in the background. 1784
Etching and engraving with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 348 millimetres
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Width: 244 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A pair to BMSat.3792. The address shows that this impression is from 1793 or later. The plate, however, is earlier, and the number shows that it was first published in 1784 (see BMSat VI p.215). An impression with the Bowles and Carver address and the publication date of 25 March 1796 was with Andrew Edmunds in 2015.
Dighton's original watercolour for this print was sold at Sotheby's, 30 April 1953 and again from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 37.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2002 Jan-Mar, Newcastle, Hatton Gall, Followers of Fashion
2002 Jun-Jul, Belfast, Ulster Mus, Followers of Fashion
2002 Aug-Sep, Nottingham, Djanogly AG, Followers of Fashion
2002/3 Dec-Feb, Brighton MAG, Followers of Fashion
2003 Apr-Jun, Braintree District Mus, Followers of Fashion
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Acquisition notes
- Formerly in the Bowles & Carver album, III p.54
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.3.54
