File:The Bold Attempt (BM 1869,0213.4).jpg
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[edit]The Bold Attempt ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
After: John Collet
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Title |
The Bold Attempt |
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Description |
English: Satire on country life. In a churchyard, a soldier attempts to embrace a young woman who pushes him away, her dog crouches on a nearby tomb inscribed 'memento mori' and growls; two village boys tie bones to the string of a kite to which leaves from "Hervy's Meditations among the Tombs" are attached. On the left an old woman coming out of the church pulls at the soldier's shoulder-knot and raises her walking stick; behind her a small girl land two women look on anxiously one older woman raising both her hands and her eyes, the clergyman looks heavenwards and behind him a small old man leaning on a crutch squints through a telescope.On the left two grave diggers grin at the scene; beside them is the gravestone of "Charles Cheatham". Beyond the wall of the churchyard, on the left, a man on horseback laughs at the scene, a copy of "The Buck's Delight"protrudes from his pocket; a black attendant wearing a jockey's cap holds another horse. On the right, behind an obelisk topped by an urn, a man and a woman holding a baby look over the scene from an upstairs window; after John Collet. 1773
Etching and engraving |
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Depicted people | Associated with: John Hervey | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1773 date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1869,0213.4 |
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Notes | Calwell exhibited the engraving at the Free Society in 1773 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1869-0213-4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Color space | sRGB |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows |
Date and time of digitizing | 17:37, 11 June 2008 |
File change date and time | 17:39, 11 June 2008 |
Date metadata was last modified | 17:39, 11 June 2008 |