Grotesque borders for rooms & screens. extravaganzas / [graphic] : Plate 5

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Title: Grotesque borders for rooms & screens. extravaganzas / [graphic] : Plate 5
Alternative Title: Grotesque borders for rooms and screens
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann and Co., publisher.
Published / Created: [30 April 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. April 30th, 1799, at R. Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand, London
Abstract: Three vertical strips in between borders. First image on top left: two Lilliputian figures of sportsmen (jockeys?) riding from left to right, one of them saying, The sports are begun
Description: Title etched vertically in left margin.
Number "5" in "Plate 5" etched backwards.
"No. 5."--Upper left corner.
Imperfect, sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title, statement of responsibility and imprint. Missing text from Woodward Collection of Prints and Drawings, record no. D5459/2/23/2.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: J Whatman 1810.
Provenance: Sanders; 1961.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 47 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Trophies (Architectural ornaments)
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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