Mock turtle [graphic].

Description

Title: Mock turtle [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: Jany. 24, 1785.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 23 Piccadilly
Abstract: The profiles of an elderly and ugly pair, registering hostile anxiety, meet, their tongues touching, while between them is a punch-bowl. Just above their heads two doves bill on a branch
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from Grego.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii; May 1954.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bowls (Tableware)
Couples
Doves
Kissing
Older people
Subjects: Bowls (Tableware)
Couples
Doves
Kissing
Older people
England > 1785
England > London > 1785
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Riviere & Son > Binding

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