Legerdemain [graphic]

Description

Title: Legerdemain [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [1799?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Rowlandson attribution and questionable date from Grego.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dental examination -- Corns -- Doctor's office, interiors.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 15.5 x 22.7 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 48 of volume 5 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 15.8 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 19.1 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Medicine, Rural
Pain
Medical examinations
Dentistry
Interiors
Medical offices
Physicians
Subjects: Medicine, Rural
Pain
Medical examinations
Dentistry
Interiors
Medical offices
Physicians
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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