[Man with butterfly nets] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Man with butterfly nets] [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title assigned by curator.
Probably by Rowlandson. See simillar frontispieces by Rowlandson for Pindar's poems in the British Museum catalogue, nos. 7051, 7186, 7431.
Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the print appears.
Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Sir Joseph Banks and the Emperor of Morocco. London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1788]
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on leaf 73 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 25.1 x 19.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Frontispieces
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1788
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
Subject (Topic): Butterflies
Butterfly nets
Subjects: Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1788
Butterflies
Butterfly nets
England > London > 1788
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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