Bay of Biscay [graphic]

Description

Title: Bay of Biscay [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 September 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: T. Rowlandson
Description: Title from item.
Plate possibly first published in 1789. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, p. 262
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from lower edge. Title supplied from Grego.
Companion print to: Chealsea Reach.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Boat or ship -- Storms -- Reference to Bay of Biscay.
1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 18.5 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 18 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Aquatints England London 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching and aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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