Raising the wind [graphic] / Rowlandson 1812.
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Description
- Title
- Raising the wind [graphic] / Rowlandson 1812.
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher. - Published / Created
- 1812 October 30
- Copyright Date
- Octr. 30 [1812]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Publisher
- T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St. Adelphi
- Abstract
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"A handsome young military officer, seated in an armchair, drinks wine with two Jewish money-lenders, who sit facing him across a round table. He listens with a reckless smile to one of the Jews; the other peers through spectacles at 'Title Deeds'. The Jews are old, thin, and bearded, but one wears a bag-wig. On the ground by the latter (right) is a paper: 'Money Lent on good Securities. Annuities Jointers [sic] bought and Sold.' By the spendthrift's chair lies a greyhound. The background is a wall closely covered with pictures in ornate frames, which combine to tell the young man's story. Above his head is a 'Prodigal Son' kneeling among the swine; above this a reclining Venus is partly visible, and below, 'Diane', a horse and foal. Gamesters at a 'Hazard Table' hangs above 'Sir Matthew Mite', a miser with money-bags, weighing coin in sacks. Below this is a bust portrait of 'Sir Peter Plumb' in a tie-wig. A bust portrait of a scraggy woman wearing jewels is 'Lady Crane'. Below this is a picture of a fighting-cock, the frame decorated by a baron's coronet. On the right are two pictures, a jockey on a race-horse, 'Sancho', with the winning-post in the background, and a large gabled country house: 'View of the Yorkshire Estate'."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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For the original issue of the plate, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 52.
Reissue of a plate first published in 1805; the final two digits of the year in printmaker's signature have been altered, and the year "1805" at end of imprint statement has been scored through. See British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Two lines of quoted verse below title: "When noblemen have lost race horse, and all their rino spent -, then little Isaac draws the bond, and lends for cent per cent. - Extent
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 33.8 x 23.1 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. 12
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
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. 10486
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 233-5
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12941507
- Object ID (OID)
- 11794964