Boston Public LibraryEnglish Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists / Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Dropsy courting consumption
Item Information
- Title:
- Dropsy courting consumption
- Description:
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Outside a building marked Mausoleum a dwarf rotunda beside a slender column kneels a round ball of a suitor, who, it would seem, is destined never to recover his perpendicular ; he is suing at the feet of an attenuated nymph, of straight and bony proportions, who it appears is in the last stage of wasting away. In the grounds a corpulent lady and a declining-looking gentleman of the Laurence Sterne type arc contemplating a statue of Hercules.
- Artist:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Name on Item:
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Rowlandson Del
- Date:
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October 25, 1810
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Caricatures
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
- Series:
- The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5
- Subjects:
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Couples
Courtship
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 39 x 26 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/t148gd53b
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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London, No. 111 Cheapside :
Thomas Tegg
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115, 193
On item: Tegg's Caricatures. No. 45
- Notes (acquisition):
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The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
- Notes (date):
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Date from catalogue raisonné.
- Notes (citation):
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Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
- Notes (object):
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Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5," the fifth volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
- Identifier:
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18_03_000554
- Barcode:
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36666003260862
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