Boston Public LibraryEnglish Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists / Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Paris dilligence
Item Information
- Title:
- Paris dilligence
- Description:
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The diligence is starting from a massively built and handsome innyard, the sign of the Cog en Pate. The 'machine' is a cumbersome vehicle, clumsy and heavy to an incredible degree. Through the unglazed spaces for windows are seen the occupants, who are travelling Pariswards : an assortment of corpulent and shaven monks, peasant women, and an old veteran with a formidable pigtail ; a fashionable lady in feathers is ogling a beau wearing a powdered wig and enormous solitaire. The roof itself is also loaded ; another fat friar, with shaven poll, is reading his book, over which is peeping a debonnaire damsel of redundant charms, who is flirting a gigantic fan ; an officer, with an enormous cocked-hat and a massive club, has his hands in a muff of pantomimic magnitude ; by his side is a lively grisette, with a parasol ; another officer is reclining behind.
- Artist:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Name on Item:
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Rowlandson Del. Etch'd by Rowlandson
- Date:
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[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. 2
- Subjects:
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Stagecoaches
Horses
Monks
Soldiers
- Places:
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France > Île-de-France (region) > Paris
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pf970
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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No. 111 Cheapside :
T. Tegg
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115, 187-8
On item: 19
- 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. 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_000393
- Barcode:
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36666003262595
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