A young woman playing with a bird, which she has on a string. Engraving by N. Dupuis, ca. 1727, after J. Raoux.

  • Raoux, Jean, 1677-1734.
Date:
1727
Reference:
36016i
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Publication/Creation

London (No.69 St. Paul's Church Yard) : Printed for and sold by Carrington Bowles

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 25.3 x 21 cm

Lettering

Lady amusing herself with a bird. Unhappy bird! from this maids hands fly, with a false show of liberty you try: the cruel fair one wanton in your pain, lets loose your wings to draw you back again. The gay coquette's weak lover just like thee, in his first joyfull transports thinks he's free, kindly she smiles - he looks - and can't depart, and still she reigns the tyrant o'er his heart. I. Raoux pinxit. Dupuis sculpsit.

Creator/production credits

Attributed to Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis rather than to his brother Charles Dupuis, on the ground that Nicolas-Gabriel worked in England in his youth (Roux, loc. cit.)

References note

Marcel Roux and Edmond Pognon, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1955, tome VIII (inventory of prints by N.-G. Dupuis), pp. 382 (Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis: "Dans sa jeunesse il travailla en Angleterre"; does not mention this print)

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Wellcome Collection 36016i

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