A land storm, or, Jack Tars out of their element [graphic]

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Title: A land storm, or, Jack Tars out of their element [graphic]
Alternative Title: Jack Tars out of their element
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [between 1790 and 1815]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Two sailors riding horses under a dark sky, following a coach heading downhill to right, the female passenger throwing up her hands in distress; one of the sailors, much startled, tried to keep his seat on his bucking mare, his hat flying off."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date from British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on leaf 49 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 : sheet 23.3 x 20 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1790
Etchings England London 1790
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1790
England > London > 1790
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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