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The School

Maker

After
(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

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. //

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