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Love in a Blaze.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Formerly attributed to: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: J Murphy
Title
Love in a Blaze.
Description
English: A stout ugly man, partly undressed, stands on tiptoe to embrace a tall chambermaid. She holds a candle in the right hand, which she puts round his shoulder, setting his hair alight. Behind her (right) is the bed, smoking violently from a fire lit by a warming-pan negligently left there. On the chimney-piece is a squatting (Chinese) china figure with a long pipe; above it is a picture of Cupid with a torch. ? c. 1800
Hand-coloured etching
Date circa 1800
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 258 millimetres
Width: 233 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1981,U.254
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The print was tentativley attributed to Rowlandson by Dorothy George but Nicholas Knowles has dismissed this attribution, making the following comments (personal communication April 2017). "One can't rule out it being after a drawing by Rowlandson, or a pastiche copy. The flow of the line and hatching in particular looks wrong (Charles Williams would be closer?) , though there are one or two aspects - the stipple on the face and perhaps the cat on the chair ithat are vaguely suggestive of him (as of course is the subject). The attribution to Rowlandson goes back a long way, and actually seems to come originally from the erotic obsessives Henry Ashbee ("Index librorum prohibitorum", 1877, see "Forbidden books of the Victorians. Henry Spencer Ashbee's bibliographies of erotica abridged and edited, with an introduction and notes, by Peter Fryer, 1970, E074-p.161) and Edouard Fuchs ("Geschichte der erotischen Kunst", 1912, #280-p315*).

The 'J. Murphy Smoke alley' lettering as a strong hint that it is a Dublin pirate copy - Especially given that (i) there was a comic opera. Love in a blaze! (Libretto By Joseph Atkinson, ... First performed May 29 1799 at the Theatre-Royal, Crown Street, Dublin....) which fits well date wise if the 1800? is correct (and I don't think played in London ), even if it doesn't match plot wise. . and (ii) The close similarity to the name of Dublin's Smock Alley theatre - even though it closed in 1787."
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1981-U-254
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