Is this, your louse [graphic].

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Title: Is this, your louse [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created: [1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "The King, Queen, and three princesses are seated at a small dinner-table, on which is a soup-tureen, &c. The King holds a plate on which is an insect, turning round to address angrily a cook (right), who stands trembling beside him. Two alarmed servants stand behind the King's chair. The Queen and princesses make gestures of alarm; one princess (left) has risen from her chair in horror. On the extreme left stands a beefeater holding a jug, who lets glasses fall from a salver in his consternation. A draped window forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image; source of the title "Lousiad canto 1st" as indicated.
Printmaker from Grego.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides.
Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto I. London, G. Kearsley, 1787.
Provenance: Suckling; July 1957.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.2 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 21 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Frontispieces
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic): Princesses
Cooks
Dining rooms
Dining tables
Eating & drinking
Interiors
Servants
Subjects: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Caricatures and cartoons
Princesses > Great Britain
Cooks
Dining rooms
Dining tables
Eating & drinking
Interiors
Servants
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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