[Distress] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Distress] [graphic].
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Palser, Thomas, active 1803-1843, publisher.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Copyright Date: [between 1813 and 1816]
Abstract: A boat crammed with shipwrecked men, with an oar projecting to the right. One man leans his elbows on the gunwale while two of his companions throw a corpse overboard.
Description: Earliest date for publication based on watermark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
Terminal date for publication based on publisher's street address, which is "Surrey Side, Westminster Bridge" on the lettered state described by Grego; this address was only used by Thomas Palser until 1816. See British Museum online catalogue.
Title, artist, and publisher from lettered state described by Grego.
Extent: 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; sheet 35.5 x 49.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [Proof before letters].
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Aquatints--England--London--1813.
Etchings--England--London--1813.
Proofs before letters.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1813.
Watermarks (Paper)--J. Whatman--1813.--CtY-BR
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Palser, Thomas, active 1803-1843, publisher.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.

Access: Public
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Citation: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 372-4