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Cockney's [sic] Contemplating on the Exploits of the Day: Plate IV, Night (Primary Title)

Attributed to, Charles Ansell, English, active 1780–1800 (Artist)

ca. 1805
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching on wove paper with a watermark: JOHN HALL / 1805
European Art
Sheet (trimmed inside platemark): 9 11/16 × 13 13/16 in. (24.61 × 35.08 cm)
Image: 8 1/2 × 12 3/8 in. (21.59 × 31.43 cm)
85.1281.4
Not on view
Printed in upper margin: COCKNEY's CONTEMPLATING on the EXPLOITS of the DAY. Pl, IV, NIGHT. Printed beneath image, lower left: come I think pretty well / for one day's Sport.; in center: ah" [sic] my poor ferret is worth all the rest of the Game.; lower right: Bon Soir / Mounseer [sic]. Printed in center of lower margin: Pubd. Decr 8th 1800 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly, Folios of Caracatures [sic] lent out for the Evening. Inscribed in graphite lower left: 4. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: Ansell; upper right: W-M/ 1805; in center: "[Ansell]" and "HRH 15 / 30 / 2".
Paul Mellon Collection
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