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• Author/Creator:Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker.
  
• Title:An Italian family [graphic] / Rowlandson delt. ; S. Alken fecit.
  
• Publication:London : Pubd. Decr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho. Sold by W. Hinton, No. 5 Sweeting Alley, Cornhill, [December 1785]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : aquatint & etching ; sheet 38 x 48 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35.8 x 46.1 cm.
    Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint.
    Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
    
  • Provenance:From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
    
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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 785.12.00.01++
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Watermark: J Whatman.
    
  • Provenance:Old Print Shop; October 1959; Acquisitions no.: 959-10-1-100.
    
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• Medium:laid paper
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
  Exhibited: "Emma Hamilton Dancing" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, October 2013 - April 2014.
  Exhibited: "The Land without Music: Satirizing Song in Eighteenth-Century England" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, March 2017 - September 2017.
  
• Summary:An Italian family, in a poverty-stricken room, practise for opera. A young man stands full-face, singing, his fingers interlaced across his chest. He wears an open, ruffled shirt, awaistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings. To his right an old man plays an enormous 'cello. To his left a middle-aged man, seated in profile singing, plays a low harpsichord; he wears open ruffled shirt and breeches, with bare legs. Beside him on the extreme left a little boy dressed in a shirt plays the violin. On the extreme right a pretty young woman sits over the fire with an infant on her knee; she holds out a cloth to dry, looking over her shoulder to sing. Her score ('Affetuoso') is pinned to the chimney-piece, on which stands a crucifix with a tankard, &c. A lean greyhound howls up the chimney. All but the old man have fashionably dressed hair, and a certain elegance. The room is lit from an open casement window (left); there are dark cast shadows and the bare room has no ceiling. On the wall are a print of 'Vestris' dancing, a sword, a play-bill: 'l'Avaro Deluso' (opera by Paisiello, libretto by Vulpius), and a bunch of farthing dips; on the window ledge a cracked mirror, cocked hat, bottles, &c. Beneath the harpsichord is a large bowl labeled 'Macaroni'; and in the foreground lie a violin, music-books, earthenware pots, &c."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9670
  
• Subjects:Vulpius, Christian August, 1762-1827--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Children.
  Families--Italian.
  Mothers.
  Musical instruments.
  Musicians.
  Singing.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1785.
  Aquatints--England--London--1785.
  Etchings--England--London--1785.
  Watermarks (Paper)
  
• Also listed under:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
  Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, publisher.
  Hinton, William, active 1779-1806, publisher.