Joy with tranquility [graphic]

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Title: Joy with tranquility [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 brewer (left) accepts a note for five thousand [pounds] from a young man in profile (right). Three lines of text below image: "This passion is represented by a philosophical brewer, who having gained a considerable prize in the lottery, receives it with the most perfect composure -- a useful lesson for those persons who are too apt to be over elated at an unexpected change of fortune."
Description: Title and plate number etched above image.
"No. 8."
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 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 29.5 x 23.5 cm.
State without plate number.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29 x 22.9 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): Occupations
Lotteries
Subjects: Occupations
Lotteries
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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