Chealsea Reach [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Chealsea Reach [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Chelsea Reach
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Published / Created
- [1799]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"Scene on the Thames near Chelsea; a large pleasure party of young men and women on a boat, drinking toasts, rowed by six watermen wearing jockey caps, a servant and two men playing French horns at the helm at right, where a union jack is flying from a pole; other boats on the water behind, bridge and church at left, the Chelsea Hospital on the bank beyond at centre."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Plate possibly first published in 1789. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 262.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from lower edge. Title supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Companion print to: Bay of Biscay.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Boats: shallop -- Chelsea -- Flute -- Watermen -- Buildings: Battersea Church.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 18.6 x 27 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 45 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 17 x 27 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 3
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Aquatints England London 1799
Etchings England London 1799 - Material
- etching and aquatint with roulette ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Flags
British
Musical instruments - Subjects
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Flags > British
Musical instruments
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- 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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8200705
- Object ID (OID)
- 11791566
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