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The print is after the mid-18th century French painter Jean-Siméon Chardin's (1699-1779) Le château de cartes, of circa 1736 and now at The Manor House, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire.
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AFTER JEAN-SIMÉON CHARDIN, LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A GEORGE III REVERSE MEZZOTINT ON GLASS
AFTER JEAN-SIMÉON CHARDIN, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Depicting Le château de cartes, after Chardin, in a giltwood frame, with inscription 'Chardin pinx. Why smile ye to behold this idel Boy? When fruitless schemes oft' older Heads employ; The only Difference is, This builds with Care, Houses of Cards, They, Castles in the Air. Tinney fecit. Printed and Sold by I. Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street'; and A George III reverse mezzotint-on-glass, late 18th century, depicting and inscribed 'THE FLUSHING OF THE WOODCOCK, 12½ x 16¼ in. (32 x 41.5 cm.)
13¼ x 16¾ in. (33.5 x 42.5 cm.) (2)
AFTER JEAN-SIMÉON CHARDIN, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Depicting Le château de cartes, after Chardin, in a giltwood frame, with inscription 'Chardin pinx. Why smile ye to behold this idel Boy? When fruitless schemes oft' older Heads employ; The only Difference is, This builds with Care, Houses of Cards, They, Castles in the Air. Tinney fecit. Printed and Sold by I. Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street'; and A George III reverse mezzotint-on-glass, late 18th century, depicting and inscribed 'THE FLUSHING OF THE WOODCOCK, 12½ x 16¼ in. (32 x 41.5 cm.)
13¼ x 16¾ in. (33.5 x 42.5 cm.) (2)
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