print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.1698
- Title
- Object: A Companion to Yae - ough
- Description
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An old woman shown half-length in profile to right, yawning broadly, sitting on a wooden chair wearing a simple gown, fichu and bonnet; in an oval frame. 1737, as reworked and reprinted c.1770.
Etching overworked in mezzotint.
- Production date
- 1737 (original publication)
- Dimensions
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Height: 206 millimetres
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Width: 146 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM Satires includes a version of this in reverse direction published by Thomas Silcock in 1764, which has a pair showing a man yawning, entitled 'Yae - ough Cave Amice' (BM Satires 4108).
The Lennox-Boyd database notes that the following advertisement appeared in Thomas Bakewell's catalogue for 3-5/1/1738: 'Whereas there has been lately publish'd a Print of a Woman, propos'd (without any likeness) to correspond with the Gaper, call'd Yae-ough; therefore Yae-ough may be accompanied with a Print that has some Drawing and Expression in it, in a few Days will be publish'd, its Companion drawn by the same hand. Printed and sold by T. Bakewell, Printseller, next Door the Horn Tavern in Fleet-street.'
ADD These two prints survives in the Lewis Walpole Library and one of them is an early state of the print catalogued here. It has been reworked with a rocker, and has a new publication line replacing the original 'Invented & Publish'd in the year 1737 & sold by Thos. Bakewell next the Horn Tavern in Fleet Street London' (reproduced in Richard Goddard, 'The Basire family' 2016, p.23). The price of 6d is the same on the first state.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.1698
