Preaching to some purpose [graphic]

Description

Title: Preaching to some purpose [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Published / Created: [14 July 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 14, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Probably an earlier reversed version of print published in 1812. Cf. No. 11972 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 236.
Title, statement of responsibilty, and imprint trimmed and re-mounted below design.
Removed from a blue mounting: Formerly part of a shop album?
Mounted on verso of leaf 70 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 : approximate sheet 27.7 x 33 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1801
England > London > 1801
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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