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An essay on the sublime & beautiful.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: S W Fores
Title
An essay on the sublime & beautiful.
Description
English: (BMSat 6863)


One of two designs on the same plate, see BMSat 6864. A cobbler (left) preaches in a bare, raftered room with a casement window. He stands behind a reading-desk on which is a large, open book, leaning forward, pointing, gesticulating, and shouting. The heads of his congregation, old men and women, are below and on the right. The title is from Burke's book, 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful' (1756). 1 October 1785

(BMSat 6863)
A companion design to BMSat 6863 on the same plate. A scene in the House of Commons showing the corner of the clerks' table (left), the benches on the right crowded with members, and part of the gallery above, with two persons looking over. The new member stands, knees bent, hat in his left hand, right hand extended; his attitude and expression convey the impression of a halting and embarrassed speech. He is in full dress, with sword and bag-wig. The members listen with expressions of contemptuous amusement or boredom. 1785


Hand-coloured etching
Date 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 222 millimetres (cropped)
Width: 345 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1876,1014.1-2
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 160 (reproduction) (BMSat 6863) and Grego, 'Rowlandson', i, 165 (BMSat 6864). Two companion designs on the same plate.

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The two designs have been given separate registration numbers despite being printed from one plate onto one sheet. 1876,1014.1 (BMSat 6863) refers to 'An essay on the sublime & beautiful.', 1876,1014.2 (BMSat 6864) to 'The maiden speech.'
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1876-1014-1-2
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