Ducking a scold [graphic]

Description

Title: Ducking a scold [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist, publisher
Published / Created: [12 April 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. April 12th, 1803 by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
Abstract: A angry old hag sitting in a chair is lowered into a body of water by jeering crowd. A little boy on the right urinates in her direction. A cat in a bowl floating in the water howls in her direction. A calf sits between the large man blowing a trumput. Various people in the crowd show their merriment by dancing, hitting a pot with a hammer, blowing a horn, and drinking gin
Description: Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35 x 25 cm, on sheet 36.7 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1803
Material: etching and drypoint with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Anger
Cats
Crowds
Trumpets
Urination
Subjects: Anger
Cats
Crowds
Trumpets
Urination
England > 1803
England > London > 1803

Access: Public
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