Boston Public LibraryEnglish Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists / Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Platonic love
Item Information
- Title:
- Platonic love
- Description:
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An illustration to the lines in Othello wherein Desdemona's wooing is described. A veteran commander, who has lost an arm and both legs, is acting on the advice of his fair, who is tenderly embracing his wooden leg. Although the name of Rowlandson is appended to this plate, the method of its execution bears a closer resemblance to the handling of C. W. (Williams).
- Etcher:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Artist:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
- Name on Item:
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Sir E. Bunbury del. Rowlandson, Sc.
- Date:
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May 30, 1807
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Caricatures
Poetry
- 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. 2
- Subjects:
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Disabled veterans
Peg legs
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 39 x 26 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pf482
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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London, 111 Cheapside :
T. Tegg
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 74-5, 115
On item: S. 2
- Notes (acquisition):
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The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
- Notes (date):
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Date from item.
- 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. 2," the second 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_000359
- Barcode:
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36666003259252
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