George Frederick represented as a boar playing the organ on a stage, a monkey hold up a mirror and the stage is littered with other animals and instruments. Etching by J. Goupy, 1754.
- Goupy, Joseph, 1689-1769.
- Date:
- [1754]
- Reference:
- 34157i
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Publication/Creation
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1754]
Physical description
1 print : etching ; sheet 47.6 x 32 cm
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The true representation and caracter. Strange monsters have adorned the stage, Not Afric's coast produces more. And yet no land, no clime, nor age, Have equal'd this harmonious boar. L'ira è lodovole quando giuesta è la cagione. Plinio
The Italian phrase contradicts the Latin sentence of Pliny the younger which it purports to paraphrase, Epistulae, lib IX, no. 21 ("tunc praecipua mansuetudinis laus, cum irae causa iustissima est")
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Wellcome Collection 34157i
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Location Status Access Closed stores