Plate XXIII

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Creator

Signed: "Woodward inv" [George M. Woodward]

Title

Plate XXIII

Publisher

À Paris, chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard

Date

1802

Subject

Engraved black and white plate

Description

Plate XXIII: "Explications" [The legends are translated but not very funny.]
abc: "'Glad to see you here. Have you met our child [the dog]?' 'This is the first I have seen him.'
d&e: 'I must kiss you one more time.' 'I'm calling my mistress, I'm telling you.'
f: An elegant lady in a porte-chaise.
g: 'What is this! It's my wife! Oh! You were too charming to have been a nun.'
h: The peep show."

This book was first published in English in 1788; a second edition was published in French in Leipzig in 1800 with many more plates than in the original English edition, all of which are included in this edition.

Source

Source: Principes de Caricatures, suivis d’un Essai sur la Peinture Comique. par François Grose, Membre de la Société des Antiquités de Londrès. Traduit en français, avec des augmentations. 

Relation

From the collection of Josephine Lea Iselin.

Language

French