[Thieves] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Thieves] [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1823?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Three robbers steal from a mother and child who are sleeping (dead?) on a couch; the husband, son, and a dog hide with rifles in a closet
Description: Title devised by curator.
Attributed to Rowlandson by curator.
Date of publication assigned by curator.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 29 of volume 14 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 24.2 x 35 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1823
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > London > 1823
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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