Desire [graphic]

Description

Title: Desire [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 January 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Jany. 20, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: A hungry boy (left) holding the string of a bag over his shoulder, scratches his hair under his hat, as he looks in a window. On the otherside of the window, a grinning cook holds up a large plum pudding on a platter
Description: Title etched above image.
“No. 7”--Upper right corner above image.
Three lines of text below image: Various are the ways this passion might be depicted, in this delineation the subjects chosen are simple -- a hungry boy -- and a plumb pudding.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 29.7 x 23.4 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate number erased from sheet.
Watermark: Russell & Co 1799.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29.3 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Watermarks (Paper) Russell & Co. 1799
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Boys
Cooks
Plum puddings
Starvation
Subjects: Boys
Cooks
Plum puddings
Starvation
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Russell & Co. > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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