Mock turtle ; Puff paste

Mock turtle ; Puff paste

Item Information

Title:
Mock turtle ; Puff paste
Description:
Mock Turtle, the print on top, pictures a pair of elderly suitors cooing over a bowl of mock turtle soup ; a pair of real turtledoves, perched on a branch, are introduced to carry out the allusion. In Puff Paste, the print on bottom, a fat cook is rolling out pudding paste; around her board are spread cooling tarts, apple dumplings, and batter puddings ; a footman is embracing her ample shoulders, and familiarly patting her under the chin.
Artist:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Name on Item:
Rowlandson Del
Date:
[1812?]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:
The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5
Subjects:
Courtship
Doves
Cooks
Servants
Extent:
2 prints on 1 sheet : hand-colored etching ; sheet 39 x 26 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pj32s
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
London, No. 111 Cheapside : Thomas Tegg
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115, 237
On item: Tegg's Caricatures. No. 48
Notes (acquisition):
The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
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):
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. A pair of subjects on one plate.
Identifier:
18_03_000551
Barcode:
36666003260839