[Fragments from Borders for rooms] [graphic].

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Title: [Fragments from Borders for rooms] [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [30 March 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published March 30, 1799, at Ackermann's Gallery, No. 100 Strand
Abstract: One image only. An elderly woman and a young man face an obese parson who is apparently about to marry them. The young man seems to be moving away from his smiling bride, saying: "I have a huge mind to be off!"
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Publication information from an unverified attribution on verso of mounting sheet.
Fragment of a horizontal border from an unidentified print from the series of Borders for rooms, designed by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800.
Mounted on one sheet together with another image from Borders plates.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1957.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10 x 11 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English