The Topers mistake [graphic] / Rowlandson.

Published/Created:

[London]
[publisher not identified]
[ca. 1801]

Copyright Date:

[ca. 1801]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored, ; sheet 27.6 x 21.1 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Place and date of publication inferred from a reversed copy published by R. Ackermann. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Alfred Bowdtich Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-9-20.
Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.

Abstract:

From the pulpit a minister wearing eyeglasses (right) reads to his small, mostly asleep congregation a sermon from a pile of papers resting on a pillow: "He brews, ten and twelve!!" A sleepy-looking man with a bulbous nose and carbuncels (foreground, left) looks up and in a speech balloon above is head: And no bad stuff either let me tell you. I should like a to take a mug.

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Eyeglasses
Harvey, Francis
Preaching
Religious services
Riviere & Son
Sleeping

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1801
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1801

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:

801.07.20.02

Orbis Record:

8329988

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr10170

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

15813493

PID:

digcoll:2782572