Tom Timorous forming an acute angle [graphic]

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Title: Tom Timorous forming an acute angle [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Published / Created: [1809?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "The rider leans forward, leaving the vertical of 90 degrees behind his head. He rides (towards St. Paul's) over a dog, and chases two ducks. Behind is a horseman in difficulties."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title etched below image; series title etched above image.
Date of publication from Grego.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 9.3 x 13.7 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 9 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 9.1 x 14.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1809
Etchings England London 1809
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1809
England > London > 1809
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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