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Artist

After: Egbert van Heemskerck II

Print made by: William Henry Toms
Title
print, satirical print
Description
English: A satire on auctions set in a sale room at night the scene in lit by three smoking candles on a trident held up by a man with the head of an ape wearing fur clothing, seen from behind. On the right the auctioneer, with the head of a fox, on his podium holds up his hammer as he conducts the sale of a picture featuring three peasants drinking and the monogram HK (presumably standing for Heemskerck). This is held up by a porter with the head of an ass wearing a medal round his neck on which is written "Charitable Corporation". Below the auctioneer is a table on which is a flask and pieces of jewellery; a picture frame and a chest with more jewellery and pieces of lace are propped against the table. On the right, a gentleman with a lion's head, holding a purse, reads a catalogue list. A servant with the head of a stag stands beside him, and a lawyer with the head of a wolf slips his hand into the gentleman's pocket. On the left, an ape holds a sword to the throat of an artist who holds brushes and palette but is unperturbed by this treatment and also fails to notice that a little monkey has his hand in his pocket. Behind him stands a man holding the unframed portrait of a woman; further back is a large bull-headed man, a monkey waving a paper and a bottle, a man with a sheep's head and another with that of a goat. A cat- headed woman peers at a paper being read by an old man with a goat's head.


On the walls hang three large paintings by "Ostard", "Van Dyke" and "Van Velde", a long dagger and two watches, a looped curtain hangs from the ceiling. c.1730


Etching and engraving
Depicted people Associated with: Anthony van Dyck
Date circa 1732
date QS:P571,+1732-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 375 millimetres
Width: 309 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1866,0407.56
Notes

From a series of eight, see BMSat 1858-1866; and 1866,0407.51 for further details. (See also a series of copies for John Bowles at P&D 1988,0514. 29-36).

The reference to the Charitable Corporation (set up in 1707 to provide small loans to tradesmen) helps to date the print to c.1731 when the Corporation succumbed to corruption.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0407-56
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