Engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 × 16 1/8 inches (35.6 × 41 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, center left: "The | Rape of | the Sabines, | a new | Opera | Performers | Romulus - Sen. Fari-li | 1 Ravisher - Sen. Sen-no | 2 Ravisher - Sen. Cor-ne | 3 Ravisher - Sen. Cor-n | Sabine Women | Sen'ra Str--dr | Sen'ra Ne--gr | Sen'ra Ber--li"; center right: "Sr. the Capt. | is a Man of | Honour, his | Sword may serve | you | yrs. Wm. Stab-"; lower left: "List of | the rich | Presents | Signor | Farinelli | the Italian | Singer | Condescen- | deth to Ac- | cept of ye | English | Nobility | & Gentry | for one | Night's Per- | formance | in the | Opera | Artaxerses | A pair of | Diamond | Knee Buck- | -les Present- | -ed by . . . | . . . . | A Diamo- | -nd Ring | by . . . | . . . . | A Bank | Note en- | -closed in | a Rich Gold | Case by | . . . . | . . . . . | A Gold | Snuff box | Chace'd | with the | Story of | Orpheus | Charming | ye Brutes | by T: | Rakewell | Esq: | 100' | 20 | 100"; lower center: "One G-d one Farinelli | a Poem dedicated to | T: Rakewell Esq."; below image, lower center: "Invented &c by Wm. Hogarth & Publish'd According to Act of Parliament June ye 25. 1735."; lower right: "Plate. 2d."; lower center: "Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, | Most pleasing, when she most beguiles,) | How soon, sweet foe, can all thy Train | Of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain, | Enter the unprovided Mind, | And Memory in fetters bind; | Load Faith and Love with golden chain, | And sprinkle Lethe o're the Brain! | Pleasure on her silver Throne | Smiling comes, nor comes alone; | Venus moves with her along; | And smooth Lyaeus, ever-young; | And in their Train, to fill the Press, | Come apish Dance, and swolen Excess, | Mechanic Honour, vicious Taste, | And Fashion in her changing Vest."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.1412
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31)British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text), , New Haven, 2006, [p. 29], V 1699:1 (YCBA)Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 6-7, 12, V 1699 (YCBA)