Patience in a punt [graphic]

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Title: Patience in a punt [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [1811?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Three elderly citizens in a punt which is propelled by a boy (left) wearing trousers. Two are fishing: one stands, 'chapeau-bras', the other, who is obese, sits in a chair. The third (right) sits in a chair smoking, his back to the others. The standing fisherman, who wears spectacles, has hooked a small dog
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Rowlandson by curator.
Date of publication supplied by curator.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A reduced copy of no. 8206 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 222.
Mounted on leaf 82 of volume 11 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 11.9 x 16 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Boats
Dogs
Eyeglasses
Fishing
Pipes (Smoking)
Subjects: Boats
Dogs
Eyeglasses
Fishing
Pipes (Smoking)
England > 1811
England > London > 1811
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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