| Method | Mezzotint |
| Artist | [Anonymous] |
| Published | London: Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard. Published as the Act directs [c.1782] |
| Dimensions | Image 137 x 113 mm, Plate 151 x 115 mm, Sheet 163 x 124 mm. |
| Notes |
Inscription below title reads: Ye Fates what made me chance to stroll that way;_Where Young Narcissus self admiring lay. A reduced version of a mezzotint droll of the same title, depicting a young woman who appears surprised when stumbling across a young military officer in full regimentals wearing a gorget and fringed sash, with a toupet-wig, lying on the grass admiring his reflection in a pool. Beside him are his hat and sword. The characters depicted are similar to those featured in the prints entitled "Capt. Jessamy learning the proper discipline of the couch" (BM Satires 6156) and "Master Lavender qualifying himself for the Army" (BM Satires 5950) and possibly depict Captain Bisset and Lady Worsley. Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which the beautiful youth, who rejected the mountain nymph Echo, falls in love with his own reflection. The printer and publisher Carington Bowles (1724 - 1793) was the son of the printer John Bowles, to whom he was apprenticed in 1741. In 1752 until c.1762, they became a partnership known as John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse, Cornhill, London. Carington left the partnership in order to take over the business of his uncle, Thomas Bowles II in St Paul's Churchyard. When Carington died in 1793 the business passed to his son (Henry) Carington Bowles. BM Satires 6157, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Tipped to album page. Date erased form publication line. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £200.00 |
| Stock ID | 33592 |