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Fortune's Favourites: or Happiness in every Situation   (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
Fortune's Favourites: or Happiness in every Situation
Description
English: Fortune stands, one hand on her wheel, holding in her right arm a cornucopia filled with flowers, wheat-ears, and fruit. She is raised high above a group of her favourites who fill the foreground. A shoeblack (left) sits on a stool smoking a pipe, and pointing to the tools of his trade which are on a low stool in front of him. An old miser hurries from left to right, looking over his right shoulder; he clasps a bag of guineas in his right hand, and holds in his left a corded chest inscribed 'Jewels'. Walking towards him (right) is a jovial cobbler, holding up a foaming pot of porter; he wears a leathern apron and under his left arm are two lasts. Behind these three are (left) a peer wearing a ribbon and star, in profile to the left; a grinning and much caricatured butcher looking to the right and holding up a purse; a cheerful sailor with a wooden leg holding up a coin. Behind these again are a well-dressed tailor carrying a garment; a fat alderman eating from a bowl of soup inscribed 'Turtle'; a smiling parson holding out a paper inscribed '500 a Year', and a carpenter (right) walking to the right with a sack of tools on his back.


In the background is partly visible (left) the rotunda of a 'Temple of Fortune', and (right) a partly built house with scaffolding, on which three builders are at work, one is drinking from an enormous tankard. Beneath the title twelve lines of verse are engraved beginning:

'In every Station, search the World around,
And Happiness may easily be found:' c.1786


Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 347 millimetres
Width: 249 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.10
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The original water-colour is in the Victoria and Albert Museum; reproduction, 'Apollo', xxxi. ior (Aug. 1931). 'Caricatures', i. 10

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Dighton's original watercolour is in the V&A.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-10
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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