Salt water [graphic]

Description

Title: Salt water [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 March 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. March 25, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: In the foreground, two women help a third terrified down the steps of a cabana and into the water. Two other women watch from inside; all are naked except for one of the women who pulls the woman into the water. A similar scene takes place in the distance; the cabana in the distance is marked "Margate mach[ine]".
Description: Title etched below image.
For reissue of print published in 1802, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 41.
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 35 of volume 7 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 19.3 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Margate (England)
Subject (Topic): Cabanas
Fear
Health resorts
Nudes
Swimming
Subjects: Margate (England)
Cabanas
Fear
Health resorts
Nudes
Swimming
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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