Dicky Diaper forming a right angle [graphic]

Description

Title: Dicky Diaper forming a right 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: A rider sits stiffly on a misshapen horse that wears blinkers. The rider's stirrups almost touch the ground, and his body and legs form a quasi-vertical line from head to heels. Above his hat is a dotted half circle labeled '90 degrees'. On the right in the middle distance another horse gallops out of control of its rider while further on top a hill in the distance is St. Paul's Cathedral and surrounding buildings
Description: Title etched below image; series title etched above image.
Date of publication from Grego.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 9.3 x 13.6 cm.
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 9.2 x 14.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

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

Access: Public
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