The Fortune Teller

Method Stipple
Artist Robert Samuel Marcaud after R. Saunders
Published London, Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1784 by J. Walker Carver & Printseller No. 148 Strand, near Somerset House.
Dimensions Image 195 x 160 mm oval, Plate 270 x 200 mm, Sheet 340 x 260 mm
Notes A print of a well dressed woman with drop earrings feathers in her hair standing in profile to left having her palm read by a Gypsy woman with a child on her back, a dog at their feet and landscape with two tall trees behind all in an oval with the inscription below:

The Fortune Teller,
O Fortune Fair, like all thy treach'reus Kind.
But faithles still, and wa'ring as the Wind.
O Painted monster, form'd Mankind to Cheat
With pleasing Poison, and with soft deceit.

Robert Samuel Marcuard (December 25, 1758- c. 1788) was an English printmaker who worked in stipple in London. He was a student of Bartolozzi c. 1773-1780 and worked for various publishers in the 1780s.

R. Saunders was an 18th century artist in London.

Condition: Excellent
Framing unmounted
Price £150.00
Stock ID 52263

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