Country simplicity

Description

Title: Country simplicity
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Jan. 1, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "A youth walks right to left, but looking to front, holding a long stick or staff. His hair hangs loosely on his shoulders, his dress is careless, with shirt open at the neck, breeches unbuttoned at the knees, and the buckles of his shoes unlatched."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Companion print to: London refinement.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.2 x 16.6 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side.
Mounted on leaf 8 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 24.3 x 17 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Boys
Peasants
Subjects: Boys
Peasants
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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