- Title:
- The Morning Rose, What Shall Poor Harpax Do!
- Date:
- 1744
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/4 x 14 5/16 inches (31.1 x 36.4 cm), Plate: 10 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches (27.6 x 32.7 cm), and Image: 9 3/4 x 12 13/16 inches (24.8 x 32.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, center left: "#54"; on back, lower right: "not cat in | [...]"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "P. Mercier pinx."; lower center: "The Morning rose, what shall poor HARPAX do! | He came, he lov'd, enjoy'd the Nymph 'tis true, | All that he wish'd, he had, but thinks at last, | Tis mighty hard to pay for Pleasures past. | But hard or not, 'tis CLOE'S constant Rule, | To drain the Purse when e'er she charms the Fool; | And in his turn poor HARPAX now must prove | What many a Fool can tell, the Curse of lawless Love. | Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Mar. 25. 1744"; lower right: "I. Faber fecit 1744"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.890
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bonnets | cap | coats | coffee cups | curtains | drapery | genre subject | gesture | gown | jeweler | jewelry | kettle | lovers | maid | men | money | pointing | prostitute | prostitution | purchasing | purse | ruffles | tray | women
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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John Ingamells, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings of Philip Mercier, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 46, Walpole Society, 1976-8, p. 60, no. 257, N12 W35 +A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22581
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Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain, The Morning Rose, What Shall Poor Harpax Do!, 1744
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