Compassion [graphic]

Description

Title: Compassion [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 January 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: "A man places a coin in the hat of an old one-eyed beggar who leans on a crutch."--British museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved above image.
Plate numbered 'No. 14' 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.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Two lines of text below image: He whose misfortunes can draw two-pence from the purse of a miser, is certainly an object of compassion, & the most capable of giving that passion its full force.
Watermark: Russell & Co 1799.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29.4 x 22.8 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Watermarks (Paper) Russell & Co. 1799
Stamps
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Beggars
Misers
Subjects: Beggars
Misers
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Russell & Co. > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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