Original plan for a popular monument to be erected in Gloucester Place [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Original plan for a popular monument to be erected in Gloucester Place [graphic].
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson,--1776-1852.
Frederick Augustus,--Prince, Duke of York and Albany,--1763-1827.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd,--1762?-1833. - Copyright Date
- [4 April 1809]
- Abstract
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"An irregular pyramidal erection is based on a solid block of stone, inscribed: The Foundation York Folly! On this rests a damaged block of similar shape more dilapidated and rather smaller: Crackd Portland Stone [see British Museum Satires No. 10716]. Above, slightly smaller but smoother and more rectangular, is Folk-stone of the First Quality. On this stand (left to right) a barrel of Whitbreads Intire [see British Museum Satires No. 10421], a large decanter of Burdetts Stingo, and a slightly smaller one of Wardlles British Spirit. They support a slab of Romilly Free Stone. On this rest two balls or bubbles; in each sits a man gloomily contemplating a writing-table, one a civilian, Sandon, the other an officer, Clavering. On these rests a slab inscribed Sandon & Claverings Dumps which supports the apex of the monument, a pyramid: Mrs Clarks Pyramid. From behind the base project (left) a mitre and crosier (see British Museum Satires No. 10227), with a paper: The New Morality [the title deriving from Canning's poem, see British Museum Satires No. 9240]; and (right) the Duke's cocked hat and sword, with papers inscribed My Darling and Love Letters [see British Museum Satires No. 10228, &c.]. There is a background of cloud."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.3 x 24.3 cm, on sheet 40 x 26 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. 10
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
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Etchings--England--London--1809.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1809. - Subject (Name)
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson,--1776-1852.
Frederick Augustus,--Prince, Duke of York and Albany,--1763-1827.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd,--1762?-1833.
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
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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 11300
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 156-7
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9150172
- Object ID (OID)
- 11792962