Love and dust [graphic]

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Title: Love and dust [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 June 1810]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. June 4, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 11 Cheapside
Abstract: A hideous, ragged woman looks amorously at her male companion, a burly dustman, as they sift through cinders; two others kneel at their feet, one also using a sieve to sift through the cinders while her companion drinks gin. In the foreground are the bones of a horse; flying overhead a flock of carrion crows
Description: Title etched below image.
Reissue by Tegg of a print originally published in 1788; see British Museum catalogue and Grego.
"Price one shilling coloured."
For the original issue of the plate, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 234-6.
For a later reissue of the plate, see no. 7444 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Watermark: GT 1803.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vo. XIII, p. 161.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.5 x 24 cm, on sheet 35 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Etchings England London 1810
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Love
Poor persons
Refuse disposal
Subjects: Couples
Love
Poor persons
Refuse disposal
England > 1788
England > London > 1810
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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