print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- Y,10.180
- Title
- Object: "Non redolet sed olet, quae redolere solet"
- Description
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Pl. to 'The second part, or sequel, of the Foundling-Chapel Brawl'. Mrs. 'Willain', after the brawl, see BMSat10465, is led out through the gate by a Hospital porter, while another porter holds his nose. She is dressed as in BMSat 10465, except that drapery from her head covers her face, forming a veil through which her features are dimly seen. 1805
Etching
- Production date
- 1805
- Dimensions
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Height: 305 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Perhaps an adaptation or echo of Martial's epigram, II. xii. 'non bene olet qui ben semper olet'.
(Supplementary information)
One of a set of proofs (Y.10-176 to 181) for the plates by Sayers to the 'Foundling Chapel Brawl', a verse satire by himself, 'Printed by C.Roworth, Bell Yard, Temple Bar, 1805'.
Placed in Sarah Sophia Banks's album of the work of James Sayers.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Y,10.180