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Strephon & Chloe
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First edition. Original engraving. tipped onto a white backing sheet. Satire on age and pretension referencing the Jonathan Swift poem: a caricatured elderly couple dancing together; behind two people laugh at them through a window; on the wall to right is a bill lettered, "Assembly / Hockley in the Hole / H Hog master of the ceremonies". 28 November 1772. Good condition. Clean and neat with very slight edgewear. 24cm x 30.5cm. Found in the British Museum Ref J,6.82: Their comments: "Strephon and Chloe was a scatalogical poem by Jonathan Swift, published in 1734. Hockley in the Hole was an unsalubrious area notorious for animal baiting. Stephens mistakenly describes the subject as a stage performance. According to Tim Clayton's unpublished catalogue of Bunbury's prints, the plate was sold by Bretherton 1799, second day, lot 151, 'Two, Strephon and Chloe and Robin Grey', and probably purchased by Fores who reissued it in 1801 (an impression in the Lewis Walpole Library)." .
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