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Joseph Goupy
1689-1769
The true representation and caracter etc.
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1754?]
etching
image: 15 x 11 13/16 inches (381 x 300 mm); sheet: 16 7/16 x 12 3/16 inches (418 x 310 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1229
Notes
Proof before letters; date and title from BM catalogue.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in unknown hand in pencil at bottom of sheet: Handel proof.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Satire on Handel, showing him with the face of a pig, seated on a beer barrel and playing on an organ, at the sides of which hang a ham, haunch of venison, goose, and turkey; behind him are a cheese, turbot, and oysters, etc., indicative of his fondness for good living; an owl stands on his head, and a monkey holds a small mirror up to him; before him are a pair of kettledrums, a bassoon, drum, double-bass, horn, two trumpets, an ass braying, cannon firing, the last alluding to the extreme fullness of his choruses; a boar's head, barrels, etc. are intermingled with the instruments.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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