Plucking a spoony [graphic]

Description

Title: Plucking a spoony [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [28 February 1812]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: Pubd. Febry. 28, 1812, by [...]
Description: Title etched below image.
Probably a reissue; publisher's name appears to have been removed from end of imprint statement.
Numbered "123" in upper right corner of design.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
The word "whoring," on the frame of the leftmost picture hanging on the background wall in the design, is mostly erased from sheet.
Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 12 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 24.1 x 34 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1812
Etchings England London 1812
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1812
England > London > 1812
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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