21.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 September 1811?]
- Call Number:
- 811.09.20.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An ugly old man wearing night-cap, dressing-gown, and slippers stands at an open window gazing up through a spy-glass at a comet shaped like a large shuttle-cock. Keys hang from his waist. Behind him (left) sits a pretty young woman, turning her head to look at the comet, but giving her right hand to a young man who kneels beside her, while she presses her foot on his. She wears a long fur boa over her evening dress."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Publication date from the British Museum online catalogue., State in the British Museum online catalogue numbered '91'., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Variant without publication date and series number. Cf. No. 11810 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
- Publisher:
- Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Comets, and Sleepwear
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Looking at the comet till you get a criek in the neck [graphic]