Savoir Vivre__Sans Six Sous. [&] Savoir Vivre___Sans Souci.
Pub.d as the Act directs 22.d Dec.r 1783 and Engrav'd by Geo. Townly Stubbs London.
Pair of stipples with etching, printed in brown, with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½") each. Slight staining right of Sans Souci.
A pun in French: A woman standing with a bonnet and a striped skirt, looks at her purse as she holds it upside down (roughly, without sixpence); [&] A fashionably dressed young woman in half-profile to the left looks with a smile at a wine glass she is holding in her raised right hand. In the left hand she has a bottle of wine. (without a care). By George Townley Stubbs (1748 - 1815?), son of painter George Stubbs (1724 - 1806).
CLB List G T Stubbs 26 & 27.
[Ref: 36548] £450.00
Pair of stipples with etching, printed in brown, with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½") each. Slight staining right of Sans Souci.
A pun in French: A woman standing with a bonnet and a striped skirt, looks at her purse as she holds it upside down (roughly, without sixpence); [&] A fashionably dressed young woman in half-profile to the left looks with a smile at a wine glass she is holding in her raised right hand. In the left hand she has a bottle of wine. (without a care). By George Townley Stubbs (1748 - 1815?), son of painter George Stubbs (1724 - 1806).
CLB List G T Stubbs 26 & 27.
[Ref: 36548] £450.00