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Balthazars' Song

Maker

(artist)
1811-1890

(engraver)
1811-1890

Title

Balthazars' Song

Date of Production

1843

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 29.4 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5852.13

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords









Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper margin centre inside plate mark & recto : : BALTHAZARS' SONG.//

Inscription: inscription : printed : middle margin centre inside plate mark & recto : : C.W. COPE. RA. / . MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING ACT 2. SCENE 3. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : middle margin left inside plate mark & recto : : SIGH NO MORE, LADIES, SIGH NO MORE [colon] MEN WERE DECEIVERS EVER [colon] ONE FOOT IN SEA AND ONE ON SHORE [colon] / TO ONE THING CONSTANT NEVER [colon] / THEN SIGH NOT SO, / BUT LET THEM GO, / AN BE YOU BLITHE AND BONNY [colon] CONVERTING ALL YOUR SOUNDS OF WOE / INTO HEY NONNY, NONNY. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin right inside plate mark & recto : : SING NO MORE DITTIES, SING NO MO / OF DUMPS SO DULL AND HEAVEY [colon] / THE FRAUD OF MEN WAS EVER SO, / SINCE SUMMER FIRST WAS LEAVY. / THEN SIGH NOT SO, / BUT LET THEM GO, / AND BE YOU BLITH AND BONNY [colon] / CONVERTING ALL YOU SOUNDS OF WOE INTO HEY NONNY, NONNY. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre inside plate mark & recto : : C.W. COPE. RA.

Inscription: inscription : stamped : upper margin right & recto : : WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : lower margin right & recto : : HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. H.J Cornish Collection / 1928. //

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