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THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

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Macaronies drawn after the life, satire etching housed in a period Birds Eye maple frame circa 1800


The etching, coloured by hand, and divided into two parts. On the left is represented a young man, a macaroni, standing at a round table, and, with linked fingers, leaning one elbow on a book, the label on which bears "Weber & Hoyle", i.e. a book on gaming or whist; near this is a second book, marked "Woman of Pleasure"; likewise a pack of cards.


The other side shows a skeleton with a elbow on a tomb with the inscription


“Here lies Interr’d Dicky Daffodil, who in a fit of Despair on a run of ill luck swallowed the Die which lodging on his heart, brought on the bone fever & a Mortification, it was maliciously reported that he fell on the points of C. Hayes’s scizzars, & not by those of the Fates./Mores Janua Vitae”.


Age related discoloration and staining.


32/26.5/3cm

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    • Price: £395.00
    • €469 Euro
    • $482 US Dollar
  • Location: England