The School
Maker
After
(artist)
1610-1685
(printmaker)
1723-1818
(publisher)
(artist)
1610-1685
(printmaker)
1723-1818
(publisher)
Title
The School
Date of Production
1785
Medium
etching with mezzotint
Dimensions
Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 27.8 cm
Width: 27.8 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.6092.21
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: A.V.Ostade pinxt: //
Inscription: W.Baillie sculp: //
Inscription: Yet nurs'd with skill, what dazzling fruits appear! / Ev'n now sagacious foresight points to show / A little bench of heedless bishops here, / And there a chancellour in embryo. / Jany. 18th 1785. //
Inscription: THE SCHOOL / The original Picture is / In the Collec.n of Audw. Caldwell Esqr. Dublin. //
Inscription: Or Bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, / As Milton, Shakespeare, names that ne'er shall die! / Tho' now he crawl along the ground so low, / Nor weeting how the Muse should soar on high, / Wisheth, poor starv'lling elf! his paper kite may fly. / Shenstone in imitation of Spender. //
Inscription: W.Baillie after Paintings and Drawings, Boydell, London. //
Inscription: W.Baillie sculp: //
Inscription: Yet nurs'd with skill, what dazzling fruits appear! / Ev'n now sagacious foresight points to show / A little bench of heedless bishops here, / And there a chancellour in embryo. / Jany. 18th 1785. //
Inscription: THE SCHOOL / The original Picture is / In the Collec.n of Audw. Caldwell Esqr. Dublin. //
Inscription: Or Bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, / As Milton, Shakespeare, names that ne'er shall die! / Tho' now he crawl along the ground so low, / Nor weeting how the Muse should soar on high, / Wisheth, poor starv'lling elf! his paper kite may fly. / Shenstone in imitation of Spender. //
Inscription: W.Baillie after Paintings and Drawings, Boydell, London. //
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