The BLOOMING PEACH and SHRIVELL'D APPLE, or AMOROUS NOTIONS at FOURSCORE.
Date1773
Publisher
Carington Bowles
1724 - 1793
OriginEngland, London
MediumMezzotint engraving on laid paper
DimensionsOverall: 15 3/4 × 10 3/8in. (40 × 26.4cm)
Other (Plate): 13 7/8 × 9 7/8in. (35.2 × 25.1cm)
Other (Plate): 13 7/8 × 9 7/8in. (35.2 × 25.1cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1954-707
DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "The BLOOMING PEACH and SHRIVELL'D APPLE, or AMOROUS NOTIONS at FOURSCORE./Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs 2.d Jan.y 1773."Label TextThis print shows an older man making a romantic advance at a much younger woman who fends him off with her arm. “Fourscore” means being four times twenty or eighty.ProvenanceBefore 1954, the Old Print Shop (New York, NY); 1954-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).
