[A posting inn] [graphic]

Description

Title: [A posting inn] [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A stagecoach stopped outside an inn with the sign of the horse at right, another coach being driven at speed at centre, a man in a leisuredly cabriolet at left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description: Title from Grego.
Plate reissued ca. 1803 with the title: A stage coach. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.164.
For a brief description of series, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 212.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 3 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 18.1 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Aquatints England London 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Material: etching and aquatint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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