Spiritual lovers [graphic]

Description

Title: Spiritual lovers [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Hooper & Wigstead, publisher.
Published / Created: [2 January 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead and Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn
Description: Title etched below image.
From a series of eleven plates entitled "Love in Caricature."
One of six 'Lovers' prints published by Rowlandson in 1797, recorded in Grego in 1798.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Dear maiden, I feel it within ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Couples.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.5 x 20.3 cm, on sheet 28.3 x 21 cm.
Mounted on leaf 67 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 : sheet 28 x 22 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Etchings England London 1797
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1797
England > London > 1797
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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