Mock turtle [graphic].

Description

Title: Mock turtle [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Published / Created: 1785 January 24
Copyright Date: Jany. 24, 1785.
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: S. W. Fores, no. 23 Piccadilly
Abstract: The profiles of an elderly and ugly pair, registering hostile anxiety, meet, their tongues touching, while between them is a punch-bowl. Just above their heads two doves bill on a branch.
Description: Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Printmaker from Grego.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 20 x 24 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1785.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1785.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Bowls (Tableware)
Couples.
Doves.
Kissing.
Older people.

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.
Citation: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 152