The Topers mistake [graphic]

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Title: The Topers mistake [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [ca. 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: From the pulpit a minister wearing eyeglasses (right) reads to his small, mostly asleep congregation a sermon from a pile of papers resting on a pillow: "He brews, ten and twelve!!" A sleepy-looking man with a bulbous nose and carbuncels (foreground, left) looks up and in a speech balloon above is head: And no bad stuff either let me tell you. I should like a to take a mug
Description: Title etched below image.
Place and date of publication inferred from a reversed copy published by R. Ackermann. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowdtich Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27.6 x 21.1 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Eyeglasses
Preaching
Religious services
Sleeping
Subjects: Eyeglasses
Preaching
Religious services
Sleeping
England > 1801
England > London > 1801
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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