Catching an elephant [graphic]

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Description

Title
Catching an elephant [graphic]
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 1 March 1812]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"Two handsome young courtesans coax an enormously obese and carbuncled 'cit' towards the door of a bagnio (right). One (right) takes him by the wrist, throwing back a cloak to reveal her charms; he leers hideously at her. The other takes him by the shoulders and chin. Above the door are the words 'Warm Bath'. A placard beside it: 'Restorative Drops -Old Age Debility of ever so long standing quickly restored to Youth and Vigour - Prepar'd & Sold by the . . .' They are under an archway inscribed 'Bagnio Court' in an arcade, suggesting Covent Garden."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state

Description
Title etched below image.
Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate.
Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. March 1st, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf No. 11957 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate numbered "146" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling coloured."--Lower right corner of design.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left edge.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 226.
Temporary local subject terms: Bagnio -- Lighting -- Carbuncle.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss Collection ; May, 1954 ;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 35 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 37 x 25 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
812.03.01.01+
Collection Title
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1812
Etchings England London 1812
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman Turkey Mill
Material
etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1812
England > London > 1812
J. Whatman Turkey Mill
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8163477
Object ID (OID)
10967650

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