Miseries of bathing [graphic].

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Description

Title
Miseries of bathing [graphic].
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created
[1807?]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Two pretty young women stand nymphlike on the edge of a stream, peering through trees in search of their clothes. These are held by a young man hidden behind a tree-trunk (left)."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Two lines of text below title: After bathing in the river, on returning to the bank for your clothes, finding that a passing thief has taken a sudden fancy to the cut of every article of your dress.
Plate numbered "36" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 94 in volume 1.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 34.7 x 25 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 26 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
Collection Title
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material
etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12850968
Object ID (OID)
16192394

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