Irish ambassadors extraordinary!!! [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Irish ambassadors extraordinary!!! [graphic].
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [March 1789]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"A procession of seven men riding galloping bulls; the leader (right) is a bishop (St. Patrick) wearing a mitre and carrying a cross; he has a beard, and says, "Make haste, my dear Honeys". The others are the six 'ambassadors'; all wear fool's caps, all flourish shillelaghs, and all carry sacks of potatoes at their backs. Their leader, who wears a ducal coronet, says "No Restrictions, by the Holy Cross of St Patrick!!!" His sack is labelled 'Leinster potatoes'. Next, wearing an earl's coronet, is Charlemont; he stoops over his bull's neck, saying, "We'll let the English see what Upright Members we have in Ireland; never lose an Inch in any Engagement!" His sack is labelled 'Ulster Potatoes'. The next 'Ambassador' says, "Christ Jasus how our majority will astonish the young King". The bull of the next man snorts and kicks ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Questionable attribution to Rowlandson from British Museum catalogue.
Date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher's advertisment in lower right: In a few days will be pubd. The return of the embassadors [sic].
Companion print to: The ambassadors extraordinary return on bulls without horns.
Mounted on leaf 48 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 : plate mark 17.4 x 80 cm, on sheet 22.7 x 81 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
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1789
Etchings England London 1789 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Charlemont, James Caulfeild, Earl of, 1728-1799
Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804
Patrick, Saint, 373?-463? - Subjects
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Charlemont, James Caulfeild, Earl of, 1728-1799 > Caricatures and cartoons
Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804 > Caricatures and cartoons
Patrick, Saint, 373?-463? > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1789
England > London > 1789
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
- 12678168
- Object ID (OID)
- 11791570
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