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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1812]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a small round table, holding up a large watch, the hands showing that it is 9.40, and yawning deeply. On the table are a decanter containing a tiny 'blue devil', cf. British Museum Satires No. 8745, and a guttering candle stuck in a potato at which a rat is nibbling. Another rat runs up the table leg. The other man (right), with closed eyes, and hands on knees, sits on a stool, registering melancholy resignation. One pig (left) devours a 'Racing Calendar' which floats on the water. A fire of sticks burns smokily on a wide hearth; a large pot is overturning, the contents gushing over. Above the chimney-piece hangs a picture in a broken frame of a country house. There is one small casement window, half boarded up, the other half partly stuffed up with a pair of breeches. A ham and a hare hang from hooks in the ceiling. High up on the wall is a small shelf on which is broken china; a cat stands on it."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 24.9 x 35.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 12a (i.e. verso of leaf 11) of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Clocks & watches, Ducks, Dwellings, Fireplaces, Floods, Interiors, Rabbits, Rats, and Swine
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Comforts of an Irish fishing lodge [graphic]