Introduction [graphic].

Description

Title: Introduction [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [30 November 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Novr. 30, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "The interior of a luxuriously furnished room. A young woman (right), fashionably dressed, looks down demurely as she receives the eager advances of an elderly and toothless man wearing a bag-wig and sword and the ribbon of an order. He covertly gives a purse to a fat and elaborately dressed bawd who stands behind him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Reissue of no. 6872 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.8 x 35.2 cm.
Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27 x 37 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bribery
Courtship
Parlors
Daggers & swords
Wigs
Subjects: Bribery
Courtship
Parlors
Daggers & swords
Wigs
England > 1793
England > London > 1793
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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