Long sermons and long sieges are apt to lull the senses [graphic].

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Title: Long sermons and long sieges are apt to lull the senses [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Field & Tuer, publisher.
Published / Created: [11 February 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Feby. 11, 1784, by W. Humphey [sic], Strand and Field & Tuer
Abstract: In an inn, a parson snores while his table companion, an old soldier with a wooden leg, recounts animatedly the battle of Dettingen, the map of which hangs on the wall behind them. Next to him, a dog sleeps by the roaring fireplace above which hangs a portrait, a carbine and a sword. The inn maid approaches the table with a roast on a platter
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 389.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
The digit "4" in "1784" in imprint statement is etched backwards.
On leaf 60 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Provenance: Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919. Transferred from Yale University Library; November 1967.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.9 x 19 cm, on sheet 43 x 59 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title: Leaf 60. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Collection / Other Creator: Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900, collector.
Collection Date: [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England London 1868
Restrikes
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Dettingen, Battle of, Karlstein, Unterfranken, Germany, 1743
Clergy
Soldiers
Peg legs
Taverns (Inns)
Servants
Eating & drinking
Dogs
Fireplaces
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Dettingen, Battle of, Karlstein, Unterfranken, Germany, 1743
Clergy
Soldiers
Peg legs
Taverns (Inns)
Servants
Eating & drinking
Dogs
Fireplaces
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
England > 1784
England > London > 1868

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