Bachelors fare PC 3 - 1787--Bachelors fare (A size) [P&P]REPRODUCTION... |
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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link TITLE:Bachelors fare CALL NUMBER:PC 3 - 1787--Bachelors fare (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-132972 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:Print shows a man, seated at a table, embracing and kissing a woman, around the table are seated three women, a fourth, carrying a tankard of beer, enters through a door on the right; on the table are bread and cheese, a visual reference to a quote by Jonathan Swift, "Bachelors fare; bread and cheese, and kisses." Two illustrations are on the wall in the background, one of a church, and the other of a swarm of bees around a hive. MEDIUM:1 print : etching ; 21 x 36.5 cm. (plate) CREATED/PUBLISHED:[London] : Published ... for the proprietor by W. Moore, No. 48 New Bond Street, E. Macklew, No. 9 Haymarket and W. Dickie, No. 195 Strand, 1787 Oct. 16th. NOTES: Title from item. Attributed to William Dent. See also: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4553. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). SUBJECTS: Kissing--1780-1790. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1780-1790. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c32972 CARD #:2003674077
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