St. Valentines Day, or, John Bull intercepting a letter to his wife [graphic].

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Title: St. Valentines Day, or, John Bull intercepting a letter to his wife [graphic].
Alternative Title: John Bull intercepting a letter to his wife
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [23 February 1809]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Febry. 23, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Text below title, with the heading "Copy of the letter," begins: My Dearest Dear, I received your sweet dear little letter, and with them the leather breeches and blessed be the fair hand that sewed on the buttons ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: 1803.
Mounted on leaf 5 of volume 10 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 : plate mark 25.5 x 35 cm, on sheet 26.9 x 37 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1809
Etchings England London 1809
Watermarks (Paper) 1803
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): John Bull (Symbolic character)
Subjects: John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1809
England > London > 1809
1803
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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