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Melting Moments   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist

Published by: Bowles & Carver

After: Robert Dighton (?)
Title
Melting Moments
Description
English: A fat man shown head-and-shoulders to right, sweating profusely and mopping his bald pate with a handkerchief; in an oval.
Mezzotint
Date 1780s-1790s (circa)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 150 millimetres
Width: 111 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
2010,7081.1953
Notes

There are signs of erasure below the publishers' names and the style is very like Dighton's.

It is probably from a group of half-length caricatures in ovals or roundels after Dighton. The majority are published by Bowles & Carver in the 1790s, but since some are published by Carington Bowles in the 1780s and earlier states of others published by him are known, all those published by Bowles & Carver are probably republished states of plates originally issued by Carington.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-1953
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