Boston Public LibraryEnglish Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists / Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Sorrow's dry or a cure for the heart ache
Item Information
- Title:
- Sorrow's dry or a cure for the heart ache
- Description:
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Four line poem by Dryden at bottom. "Were I not resolv'd against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curst with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again." There is also an open book in the plate displaying these lines: "A smoky house and a scolding wife are the plagues of man's life. Oh what pleasure will abound when my wife is laid in ground!"
- Artist:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Name on Item:
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Design'd and Pub by T. Rowlandson
- Date:
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September 12, 1811
- 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
- Subjects:
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Courtship
Coffins
Dead persons
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 36 x 25 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pb20r
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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No. 1 James St. Adelphi :
T. Rowlandson
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 210
- 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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Publication statement etched into the plate. Republication, date changed from 1802.
- Identifier:
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18_03_000166
- Barcode:
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36666003334725
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