A visit to the tombs in Westminster Abbey [graphic].

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Description

Title
A visit to the tombs in Westminster Abbey [graphic].
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, attributed name.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created
Octr. 23, 1789.
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Abstract

A tour guide leading two men with astonished looks on their caricatured faces (one holds a simple walking stick and his hat) and a fashionably dressed women through Westminster Abbey, points to a monument decorated with the effigies of three knights

Description
Title etched below image.
Former questionable attribution to Newton from local card catalog record.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher's advertisement below title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints. Admitce. 1 shillg.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 38 x 28.5 cm, on sheet 38.9 x 28.7 cm.
Mounted on leaf 59 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 41 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
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 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Westminster Abbey.
Subject (Topic)
Staffs (Sticks)
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Tour guides
Tourists
Subjects
Westminster Abbey
Staffs (Sticks)
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Tour guides
Tourists
England > 1789
England > London > 1789
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
7729309
Object ID (OID)
11791582

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