This 1784 etching and stipple by John Ames shows a ticket for a commemoration concert of poet Thomas Chatterton. Genius, with child-Chatterton dressed in a blue-boys uniform, lights a flame on an altar with Bristol arms carved into its side. Ratcliffe Church, Bristol, appears in the background, within an oval frame. The composition emphasizes ceremonial objects, figure gesture, posture, architectural setting, symbolic representation, commemoration practices, observation, 18th-century British printmaking, and technical etching skills.
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This 1784 etching and stipple by John Ames shows a ticket for a commemoration concert of poet Thomas Chatterton. Genius, with child-Chatterton dressed in a blue-boys uniform, lights a flame on an altar with Bristol arms carved into its side. Ratcliffe Church, Bristol, appears in the background, within an oval frame. The composition emphasizes ceremonial objects, figure gesture, posture, architectural setting, symbolic representation, commemoration practices, observation, 18th-century British printmaking, and technical etching skills.