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Italian picture dealers humbuging My Lord Anglaise [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [30 May 1812]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on the gullibility of Englishmen travelling abroad; an Italian dealer at right showing a framed painting supposedly by Guido Reni representing Mary Magdalene to a young Englishman and his advisor at left; paintings attributed to old masters on the walls behind: Titian, Carracci, Rubens, Rosa, Parmigianino, Teniers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Italian picture dealers humbugging My Lord Anglaise
Description:: Title etched below image., Final two digits of year at end of printmaker's signature are obscured with crosshatching., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 13 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 30, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James Street, Adelphi
Subject (Geographic):: Italy
Subject (Topic):: Art dealers, Dandies, Quizzing glasses, and Paintings
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italian picture dealers humbuging My Lord Anglaise [graphic]

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[The incurable] [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [4 April 1784]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:: Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 30.7 cm, on sheet 27.8 x 35.2 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 56 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [The incurable] [graphic].