The comforts of high living [graphic]

Description

Title: The comforts of high living [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [16 December 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Decemr. 16, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Poverty vs. abundance -- Interiors: bedrooms -- Medical: gout -- Domestic service: maids -- Furniture: dressing table -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Female costume: mob-caps.
Publisher's stamp in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Mounted on leaf 59 of volume 4 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 16.2 x 22.2 cm, sheet 17 x 23.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Stipple engravings England London 1794
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1794
England > London > 1794
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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