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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 February 1809]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Above, Mrs. Clarke stands on a round dais, under a canopy, receiving her clients. These are headed by six military officers; the foremost makes a sweeping bow, cocked hat in hand. Next is a fat parson holding a money-bag inscribed 800; behind is an obese doctor, with three other elderly men. She says to them: Ye Captains and ye Colonels-ye parsons wanting place, Advice I'll give ye gratis and think upon your case, If there is possibility, for you I'll raise the dust, But then you must excuse me-if I serve myself the first. Below, Mrs. Clarke, much décolletée, looks from an open ground-floor window of a London house, to see a fashionably dressed man, Taylor, walking towards her holding a sealed packet. He looks over his shoulder at a yokel with a cudgel, who asks: I say Measter Shoe-maker where be you going in such a woundy hurry? Taylor answers: Dont speak to me fellow you should never pry into State affairs. Mrs. Clarke says: Open the door John here comes the Ambassador Now for the dear delightful Answer. Behind the yokel, evidently John Bull, is his dog. On the right is a house with a door-plate inscribed Mrs Weston."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mrs. Clarkes levee
- Description:
- Title of top design from text above image; title of bottom design from text below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 36 x 25.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., and Mounted on leaf 35 of volume 10 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Febry. 20th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Courtesans, Mistresses, Military officers, British, Clergy, Bags, Money, Windows, Staffs (Sticks), and Dogs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mrs. Clarks levee The ambassador of Morrocco on a special embassy. [graphic]