Scorn [graphic]

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Title: Scorn [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: "Two profile heads in proximity. A poor woman wearing a plain straw hat (right) looks with anxious supplication at the hideous face of a woman wearing vulgar finery and jewelry, her hands in a muff. The latter scowls contemptuously, with closed eyes. Beneath the design: 'This Passion is frequently brought forward when a rich old Dowager meets a poor relation.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title and plate number etched above image.
"No. 15."
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: This passion is frequently brought forward when a rich old dowager meets a poor relation.
State without plate number.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.8 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 29 x 23 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27 x 21.8 cm, on sheet 28.4 x 22.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Stamps
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Earrings
Muffs
Necklaces
Pleading (Begging)
Widows
Subjects: Earrings
Muffs
Necklaces
Pleading (Begging)
Widows
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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