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C1820
The Wedding Night.
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Rare Irish caricature by the Dublin publisher, J. Le Petit with his address 20 Capel St. Dublin depicting a couple on their Wedding Night. He says; Beloved Ruth shall we go to sleep or how? Her reply; Why Obadiah if … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Wedding Night.
Date:
C1820
Artist:
Condition:
In unfaded original hand colouring. Minor crease at top, otherwise in good condition. Laid on early c.19th blue paper.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
275mm
x 217mm
Paper Size:
374mm
x 253mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1820
Description:
Rare Irish caricature by the Dublin publisher, J. Le Petit with his address 20 Capel St. Dublin depicting a couple on their Wedding Night.
He says; Beloved Ruth shall we go to sleep or how? Her reply; Why Obadiah if the spirit moveth I think we had better how first & go to sleep afterwards!!
Left panel caption: Among words which signify the same principal ideas some are clean and decent other unclean some chaste others obscene. Watt’s Logic.
The quote is from Issac Watts, Logic : Or, the Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth.
Right panel caption: Talk not to a Lady in a way that modesty will not permit her to answer. Clarissa.
The quote is from; Samuel Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady
References:
McPhee, C. Infinite Jest : Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine. New York 2011:.
Robinson, R. Caricature and the Regency Crisis: An Irish Perspective.:.
Bills, M. The Art of Satire. London 2006:.
: Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady.
McPhee, C. Infinite Jest : Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine. New York 2011:.
Robinson, R. Caricature and the Regency Crisis: An Irish Perspective.:.
Bills, M. The Art of Satire. London 2006:.
: Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady.
John Le Petit (1798 - 1820)
Joseph Le Petit (fl. 1798-1820) Le Petit was a Dublin publisher of caricatures, of whom there is little biographical information of, other than where he operated from and that he had a business association with another Dublin publisher J. Sidebotham. Both their names and the of 20 Capel Street address appears on a number of prints published between 1815 and 1820. Trading Addresses: (1798-1799) 22 Suffolk Street, Middlesex Hospital, London (1800-1820?) 20 Capel Street, Dublin (1821?- ?) 17 Lower Sackville Street, Dublin
