Boston Public LibraryEnglish Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists / Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
The gig shop : Or kicking up a breeze at Nell Hammiltons hop
Item Information
- Title:
- The gig shop : Or kicking up a breeze at Nell Hammiltons hop
- Description:
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According to the picture of this place of 'fast' resort, dancing has given way to much rougher diversions, and, although the musicians are in their gallery, playing away as if the scene below was the regular thing, the place appropriated for the dance is given up to a mill conducted on strikingly professional principles; one of the combatants has 'peeled' in recognised style, and his opponent has stripped to his shirt ; the backers and seconders of the fisticuffing bucks (who are freely besprinkled with the ruby fluid) are members of the fair sex ; in fact, ladies seem in the ascendant at this entertainment.
- Artist:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Name on Item:
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Rowlandson Del
- Date:
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February 16, 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
- Series:
- The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5
- Subjects:
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Fighting
Sports spectators
Dance parties
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pj200
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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No. 111 Cheapside :
Tho's Tegg
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115, 199
On item: Tegg's Caricatures. No. 56
- 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_000545
- Barcode:
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36666003263171
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