Launching a frigate [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Launching a frigate [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
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Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher. - Published / Created
- [1 February 1809]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Febry. 1, 1809 by Thomas Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
-
"Scene at the door of a Portsmouth brothel, a corner-house. A handsome young prostitute, elaborately dressed, with curls, feathered hat, and fluttering sash, walks from it, gazing straight before her. Behind her is a fat and hideous bawd, hands on hips, who watches her with calculating malevolence. The bawd wears a watch and seals dangling from her waist; behind her is a doorway inscribed 'Hotel', with an oil-lamp (as in No. 11454) projecting from the door-post; a bell-pull is inscribed 'Ring the Bell'. Just within the door is a dark lobby lit by a lamp hanging from the ceiling and leading to a second (closed) door in which there is a small grille or judas. On the wall of the house is the inscription 'Portsmouth Dock', and three bills: 'From the Country an Assortment of Fresh Ware'; 'A Tragedy in Rehearsal'; 'Leakes Genuine Pills'. In the background is a humbler establishment, with irregular gabled roof and a porch inscribed 'Lodgings'. A sailor stands looking up at a woman who leans from the window with outstretched arms. Flames and smoke belch from the chimney. Behind it are masts and sails."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from caption below item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate numbered "207" in upper right corner.
Mounted to 29 x 38 cm. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v. xiii, p. 119.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 26 x 34 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 809.02.01.01.1+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1809
Etchings England London 1809 - Material
- etching ;
- Subject (Geographic)
- Portsmouth (England)
- Subject (Topic)
-
Brothels
Hotels
Prostitutes - Subjects
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Portsmouth (England)
Brothels
Hotels
Prostitutes
England > 1809
England > London > 1809
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9149001
- Object ID (OID)
- 10964548