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A Catch. Une Chansonnette   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Bowles & Carver
Title
A Catch. Une Chansonnette
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 6913. The interior of a room, probably in a club or fashionable tavern. Men are seated at a large circular table on which is a punch-bowl, wine-glasses, a decanter labelled 'Port', long'pipes, and bound books of music, two open, the third, which is closed, inscribed 'Catches and Glees'. The seated men are singing, pointing at each other; others stand behind, some singing, or watching the singers; one reads a newspaper through an eyeglass, another smokes a pipe. In the foreground a spaniel stands on its hind legs against the table. A curtain drapes a tall window through which is seen a line of houses and a church spire. In a panelled alcove hangs a mirror in an ornate frame. The heavy tablecloth rests on the ground, the floor is carpeted. Beneath the title twelve lines of the catch which is being sung are engraved, beginning:



'Sir you are a Comical Fellow,
Your Nose it is hooked,
Your Back it is crooked,
Yes you are a Comical Fellow.' c.1785/6


Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date between 1785 and 1786
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 345 millimetres
Width: 247 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.76
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Possibly a meeting of the Catch Club, founded 1761; members took the chair in turns at the dinners which were held weekly at the Thatched House Tavern from February to June. 'Grove, Dict. of Music'. The original water-colour is in the Print Room (1859,0709.56)

An impression with Andrew Edmunds in 2015 was dated 2 February 1786
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-76
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