Horror [graphic]

Description

Title: Horror [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. 1 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: "A woman grimaces as a boy holds up a mouse by the tail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved above image.
Plate numbered 'No. 16' in upper right corner.
Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Two lines of text below image: It is impossible to account for antipithies in this instance. Horror is exited by the appearance of a harmless mouse.
Sheet trimmed to 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.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29.2 x 23.1 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Boys
Mice
Practical jokes
Older people
Single women
Subjects: Boys
Mice
Practical jokes
Older people
Single women
England > 1800
England > London > 1800

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