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The Wanton Dying in Poverty and Disease Visited by the Modest Girl

Thomas Gaugain, Thomas Hellyer, James Northcote, Thomas Gaugain

The Wanton Dying in Poverty and Disease Visited by the Modest Girl

1796

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Thomas Gaugain, Thomas Hellyer, James Northcote, Thomas Gaugain

The Wanton Dying in Poverty and Disease Visited by the Modest Girl

1796

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 508 × 595 mm. (20 × 23 7/16 in.) Plate: 469 × 541 mm. (18 7/16 × 21 5/16 in.) Image: 409 × 499 mm. (16 1/8 × 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.11855

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "Painted by J. Northcote R.A."; below image, center left, in plate "She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her / hands to the needy. / Prov. XXXI. Ver. 20. / And thou mourn at the last, when the flesh and thy body are / consumed, _ ; And say how have I hated instruction, and my heart / despised reproof? _ ; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, / nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me? / Prov. V. Ver. 11. 12. 13."; below image, center, in plate "London, Published May 1. 1797, by T. Gaugain, No. 15, Five-Fields-row, Chelsea, & No. 4, Little Compton Street, Soho. / Diligence & Dissipation / Plate the 9th / The WANTON Dying in Poverty & Disease / Visited by the Modest Girl."; below image, center right, in plate "Elle étend sa main a l'affligé, et elle avance ses mains au pauvre. / Prov. XXXI. Ver. 20. / De peur que tu ne rugisses quand tu seras au bout, quand ta chair et ton / corps tomberont en défaillance: _ Et que tu ne dises comment ai-je hai / l'instruction, et mon coeur a t'il dedaigné les censures? _ Comment / n'ai-je point obéi a la voix de ceux que ménseignoient et n'ai-je point / preté l'oreille a ceux qui m'endoctrinoient? / Prov. V. Ver. 11. 12. 13."; below image, lower right, in plate "Engraved by Gaugain & Hellyer"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "[indecipherable]" Verso: lower center in graphite "64"; lower right in graphite "No 43 / 12/"

Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: 1794

Artist

Thomas Gaugain

French, active in England, 1756 - 1810
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Artist

Thomas Hellyer

British, active c. 1797 - c. 1804
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Artist

James Northcote

English, 1746-1831
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Publisher

Thomas Gaugain

French, active in England, 1756 - 1810
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