The First of April.
[Anon., c.1780]
Etching, platemark 160 x 100m (6 x 4"). Small margins.
Satire on a dissolute aristocrat, probably first issued in a magazine. A richly dressed young man, his hair tied in an elaborate queue, grasps a creditor, who holds a lengthy bill amounting to £500, by the shoulder and raises his stick at him; to the right, three other creditors look on in alarm, one holding a bill amounting to £2000; to the left, are two young women with hair dressed high one holding a lapdog; a monkey, dressed like the young man, squats on a chair aiming a gun at the creditors and two small dogs bark. On the wall behind are six pictures illustrating forms of self destruction: a huntsman is attacked by his hounds; a fallen rider is kicked by his horse; a man pulls down his own house on his head; a man sitting in front of a mirror places a gun in his mouth; two lovers on a bed are surprised by the woman's husband who stabs the man with his sword; two men fight a duel under the gaze of an owl, or parrot, on a stand while a body hangs from a gallows in the distance.
[Ref: 43918] £95.00
Etching, platemark 160 x 100m (6 x 4"). Small margins.
Satire on a dissolute aristocrat, probably first issued in a magazine. A richly dressed young man, his hair tied in an elaborate queue, grasps a creditor, who holds a lengthy bill amounting to £500, by the shoulder and raises his stick at him; to the right, three other creditors look on in alarm, one holding a bill amounting to £2000; to the left, are two young women with hair dressed high one holding a lapdog; a monkey, dressed like the young man, squats on a chair aiming a gun at the creditors and two small dogs bark. On the wall behind are six pictures illustrating forms of self destruction: a huntsman is attacked by his hounds; a fallen rider is kicked by his horse; a man pulls down his own house on his head; a man sitting in front of a mirror places a gun in his mouth; two lovers on a bed are surprised by the woman's husband who stabs the man with his sword; two men fight a duel under the gaze of an owl, or parrot, on a stand while a body hangs from a gallows in the distance.
[Ref: 43918] £95.00