31.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Clarke stands in a massive archway, inscribed 'CLARKES PASSAGE', addressing a crowd hurrying towards her. She wears a military coat over a white dress, cocked hat, and sword, and stands above the street level. She says: "Gentlemen it is no use to rush on in this manner -the principal places have been disposed of these three weeks and I assure you there is not even standing room". The crowd consists of military officers, elderly and often disabled, two fat parsons, a few civilians, some foppish, some the reverse, one of whom holds up a money-bag inscribed '500'. They completely fill the wide space before Mrs. Clarke, whose 'Passage' is indicated as her house by the opposite house on the extreme left. This is in 'Croakers Row', and from an attic window a little figure (Croker) peers through a telescope, as in British Museum Satires No. 11238."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson,--1776-1852--Caricatures and cartoons., Croker, John Wilson,--1780-1857--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The road to preferment through Clarkes passage [graphic].