A Lilliputian Auction.
Woodward del. Cruikshank st.
Pub.d by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London [c.1804].
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 25 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Unexamined out of frame.
Satire on ignorant collectors. In an auction, two pictures are on display, a landscape ('Lot 32 a Beutifull Claude in the highest preservation') and a portrait, which the auctioneer is opening the bidding for ('Lot 20- Cleopatra an undoubted Corregio'). A prospective buyer examines the latter through a looking glass while his advisor assures him of its authenticity ('I saw it myself in Egypt'). On the far left a man pays a deposit for the chinese figure he holds under his arm, while a bespactacled man in the centre reads a sales catalogue offering a piece of Noah's Ark, Alexander the Great's knee buckle, and Julius Caesar's wig.
Not in BM Satires, but BM 1990,1109.28.
[Ref: 68223] £360.00
Pub.d by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London [c.1804].
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 25 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Unexamined out of frame.
Satire on ignorant collectors. In an auction, two pictures are on display, a landscape ('Lot 32 a Beutifull Claude in the highest preservation') and a portrait, which the auctioneer is opening the bidding for ('Lot 20- Cleopatra an undoubted Corregio'). A prospective buyer examines the latter through a looking glass while his advisor assures him of its authenticity ('I saw it myself in Egypt'). On the far left a man pays a deposit for the chinese figure he holds under his arm, while a bespactacled man in the centre reads a sales catalogue offering a piece of Noah's Ark, Alexander the Great's knee buckle, and Julius Caesar's wig.
Not in BM Satires, but BM 1990,1109.28.
[Ref: 68223] £360.00