Distress [graphic] / from an original drawing by Thos. Rowlandson.

Published/Created:

[London]
Published by Thos. Palser, Surrey side Westminster Bridge
[ca. 1799]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.8 x 49 cm, on sheet 38 x 51 cm

Related Links:

Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v.1, p. 372

Notes:

Title from caption below image.
Publication date inferred from publisher's dates of business at the address in imprint. See Maxted, I. The London book trades, 1775-1800, p. 169.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
R.E. Lewis & Daughter; July 2010.

Abstract:

A boat crammed with shipwrecked men, with an oar projecting to the right. One man leans his elbows on the gunwale while two of his companions throw a corpse overboard.

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Artist]
Palser, Thomas [Publisher]

Topics:

Castaways
Shipwrecks

Language:

English

Genre:

Aquatints -- England -- London -- 1799
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1799
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1799

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

799.00.00.54+

Orbis Record:

9386162

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr19053

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

11140510

PID:

digcoll:2755721