The last drop [graphic].

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Title: The last drop [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.
Published / Created: 1811 April 8
Copyright Date: [5 April 1811]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St. Adelphi
Abstract: "An adaptation of British Museum Satires No. 5172 (1773), the figures reversed and altered. A short and grossly obese 'cit' stands on tip-toe in profile to the right at a side-table, raising a punch-bowl to his lips. The bowl is supported by Death, a skeleton, who stands over his unconscious victim about to plunge a javelin into his head, his right leg raised in triumphant delight. On the side-table are a frothing tankard, lemons, decanter of 'Port'; on the ground, a row of casks, with empty bottles, a corkscrew, flagon of 'Usquebaugh', &c."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue; year in imprint statement has been altered from "1801" to "1811." See British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.4 x 19.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1811.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1801.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.

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: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 9786
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 203