A poor painter seated at a canvas contemplates suicide. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

  • Busby, Thomas Lord.
Date:
[1826?]
Reference:
726146i
Part of:
Busby's humorous etchings.
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A poor painter seated at a canvas contemplates suicide. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

In a distressed interior, the painter looks up at skulls on the wall and a noose attached to a beam

Publication/Creation

[London] : [T.L. Busby], [1826?]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image and lettering 10.3 x 13.2 cm

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Lettering

Painter's hall. Inscription on the back wall: "To be satisfied with your own works is a bad sign. Leonardo [da] Vinci". A folio of drawings in the bottom right corner is labelled "Anatomical studies"

References note

Not found in: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires

Reference

Wellcome Collection 726146i

Creator/production credits

Attribution to Busby rests on provenance: the impression catalogued was part of a collection of impressions of "Busby's humorous etchings"

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