Chealsea Reach [graphic]

Description

Title: Chealsea Reach [graphic]
Alternative Title: Chelsea Reach
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Published / Created: [1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Scene on the Thames near Chelsea; a large pleasure party of young men and women on a boat, drinking toasts, rowed by six watermen wearing jockey caps, a servant and two men playing French horns at the helm at right, where a union jack is flying from a pole; other boats on the water behind, bridge and church at left, the Chelsea Hospital on the bank beyond at centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate possibly first published in 1789. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 262.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from lower edge. Title supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Companion print to: Bay of Biscay.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Boats: shallop -- Chelsea -- Flute -- Watermen -- Buildings: Battersea Church.
Title written in ink on mounting paper below image, perhaps in a contemporary hand: Chelsea-Reach; same title also written in red ink on verso of print.
Window mounted to 25 x 35 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Aquatints England London 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching and aquatint with roulette ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Flags
British
Musical instruments
Subjects: Flags > British
Musical instruments
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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