Weeping [graphic]

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Title: Weeping [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 dressed in a smock and neckerchief weeps as a well dressed woman, dabbing her eye, reads from a slip ballad."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved above image.
Plate numbered 'No. 13' 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.
Four lines of text below image: As laughter is often excited by the most simple causes, so frequently is weeping, in this instance the hard and obdurate features, that would be callous to real sufferings, melts at the fancied sorrows of a village love ballad.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Literature: country ballads.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.2 x 22.3 cm, on sheet 29 x 23 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): Broadsides
Couples
Crying
Subjects: Broadsides
Couples
Crying
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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