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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- [14 July 1805]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities include another mummy case, male and female statues, two sphinxes and a grotesque sculpture of a dog on a plinth decorated with hieroglyphs."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 32 x 24.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 29 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 14th, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Historians, Mummies, Sculpture, and Sphinxes
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Antiquarians a la Greque [graphic]
