Raising the wind [graphic] / Rowlandson 1805.
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Description
- Title
- Raising the wind [graphic] / Rowlandson 1805.
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, publisher.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership. - Copyright Date
- Octr. 30, 1805.
- Abstract
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"A handsome young military officer, seated in an armchair, drinks wine with two Jewish money-lenders, who sit facing him across a round table. He listens with a reckless smile to one of the Jews; the other peers through spectacles at 'Title Deeds'. The Jews are old, thin, and bearded, but one wears a bag-wig. On the ground by the latter (r.) is a paper: 'Money Lent on good Securities. Annuities Jointers [sic] bought and Sold.' By the spendthrift's chair lies a greyhound. The background is a wall closely covered with pictures in ornate frames, which combine to tell the young man's story. Above his head is a 'Prodigal Son' kneeling among the swine; above this a reclining Venus is partly visible, and below, 'Diane', a horse and foal. Gamesters at a 'Hazard Table' hangs above 'Sir Matthew Mite', a miser with money-bags, weighing coin in sacks. Below this is a bust portrait of 'Sir Peter Plumb' in a tie-wig. A bust portrait of a scraggy woman wearing jewels is 'Lady Crane'. Below this is a picture of a fighting-cock, the frame decorated by a baron's coronet. On the r. are two pictures, a jockey on a race-horse, 'Sancho', with the winning-post in the background, and a large gabled country house: 'View of the Yorkshire Estate'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state.
- Description
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For an 1812 reissue of the plate, see no. 10486 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Title etched below image.
Two lines of verse etched below title: When noblemen have lost race horse ... - Extent
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 33 x 23 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 52
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12851126
- Object ID (OID)
- 11791907