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Titelpagina van “Het Schouwtooneel der Wereld naar het Engelsch van W.M. Thackeray. Eerste Deel” Uitgegeven te Haarlem, bij de Erven F. Bohn. 1850.
De afbeelding heet “An Elephant for Sale” is een illustratie uit de oorspronkelijke versie van William Makepeace Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero” (uitgegeven in delen 1847-8); deze versie is gemaakt door Koninklijke Steendrukkerij C. W. MIELING (zie rechtsonder Konl Steendr v C.W. Mieling te s Hage)
Afmetingen blad: 21 x 13,1 cm
Conditie: redelijk, De afbeelding zelf is in goede staat maar het blad zelf heeft de sporen van waterschade in de randen.
In het oorspronkelijke boek zit deze afbeelding in hoofdstuk 17 getiteld “How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano”, hieronder de relevante sectie.
17. XVII: How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano (continued)
"No. 369," roared Mr. Hammerdown. "Portrait of a gentleman on an elephant. Who'll bid for the gentleman on the elephant? Lift up the picture, Blowman, and let the company examine this lot." A long, pale, military-looking gentleman, seated demurely at the mahogany table, could not help grinning as this valuable lot was shown by Mr. Blowman. "Turn the elephant to the Captain, Blowman. What shall we say, sir, for the elephant?" but the Captain, blushing in a very hurried and discomfited manner, turned away his head.
"Shall we say twenty guineas for this work of art?-- fifteen, five, name your own price. The gentleman without the elephant is worth five pound."
"I wonder it ain't come down with him," said a professional wag, "he's anyhow a precious big one"; at which (for the elephant-rider was represented as of a very stout figure) there was a general giggle in the room.
"Don't be trying to deprecate the value of the lot, Mr. Moss," Mr. Hammerdown said; "let the company examine it as a work of art--the attitude of the gallant animal quite according to natur'; the gentleman in a nankeen jacket, his gun in his hand, is going to the chase; in the distance a banyhann tree and a pagody, most likely resemblances of some interesting spot in our famous Eastern possessions. How much for this lot? Come, gentlemen, don't keep me here all day."
Some one bid five shillings, at which the military gentleman looked towards the quarter from which this splendid offer had come, and there saw another officer with a young lady on his arm, who both appeared to be highly amused with the scene, and to whom, finally, this lot was knocked down for half a guinea. He at the table looked more surprised and discomposed than ever when he spied this pair, and his head sank into his military collar, and he turned his back upon them, so as to avoid them altogether.
Of all the other articles which Mr. Hammerdown had the honour to offer for public competition that day it is not our purpose to make mention, save of one only, a little square piano, which came down from the upper regions of the house (the state grand piano having been disposed of previously); this the young lady tried with a rapid and skilful hand (making the officer blush and start again), and for it, when its turn came, her agent began to bid.” (William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair)
De afbeelding heet “An Elephant for Sale” is een illustratie uit de oorspronkelijke versie van William Makepeace Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero” (uitgegeven in delen 1847-8); deze versie is gemaakt door Koninklijke Steendrukkerij C. W. MIELING (zie rechtsonder Konl Steendr v C.W. Mieling te s Hage)
Afmetingen blad: 21 x 13,1 cm
Conditie: redelijk, De afbeelding zelf is in goede staat maar het blad zelf heeft de sporen van waterschade in de randen.
In het oorspronkelijke boek zit deze afbeelding in hoofdstuk 17 getiteld “How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano”, hieronder de relevante sectie.
17. XVII: How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano (continued)
"No. 369," roared Mr. Hammerdown. "Portrait of a gentleman on an elephant. Who'll bid for the gentleman on the elephant? Lift up the picture, Blowman, and let the company examine this lot." A long, pale, military-looking gentleman, seated demurely at the mahogany table, could not help grinning as this valuable lot was shown by Mr. Blowman. "Turn the elephant to the Captain, Blowman. What shall we say, sir, for the elephant?" but the Captain, blushing in a very hurried and discomfited manner, turned away his head.
"Shall we say twenty guineas for this work of art?-- fifteen, five, name your own price. The gentleman without the elephant is worth five pound."
"I wonder it ain't come down with him," said a professional wag, "he's anyhow a precious big one"; at which (for the elephant-rider was represented as of a very stout figure) there was a general giggle in the room.
"Don't be trying to deprecate the value of the lot, Mr. Moss," Mr. Hammerdown said; "let the company examine it as a work of art--the attitude of the gallant animal quite according to natur'; the gentleman in a nankeen jacket, his gun in his hand, is going to the chase; in the distance a banyhann tree and a pagody, most likely resemblances of some interesting spot in our famous Eastern possessions. How much for this lot? Come, gentlemen, don't keep me here all day."
Some one bid five shillings, at which the military gentleman looked towards the quarter from which this splendid offer had come, and there saw another officer with a young lady on his arm, who both appeared to be highly amused with the scene, and to whom, finally, this lot was knocked down for half a guinea. He at the table looked more surprised and discomposed than ever when he spied this pair, and his head sank into his military collar, and he turned his back upon them, so as to avoid them altogether.
Of all the other articles which Mr. Hammerdown had the honour to offer for public competition that day it is not our purpose to make mention, save of one only, a little square piano, which came down from the upper regions of the house (the state grand piano having been disposed of previously); this the young lady tried with a rapid and skilful hand (making the officer blush and start again), and for it, when its turn came, her agent began to bid.” (William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair)
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