Comedy in the country [graphic] ; Tragedy in London / Rowlandson scul.

Creator:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.

Edition:

[State numbered '20'].

Copyright Date:

[29 May 1807]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 34.1 x 25 cm

Notes:

Titles etched below each design.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW
Two designs on one plate, titled separately.
Variant state with plate numbered '20' instead of '172' and date added. Cf. No. 10910 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of state with plate altered to '172' and no year in imprint statement.

Abstract:

"Two designs on one pl. Above, two rows of burlesqued yokels (with two comely women, and an ugly old one), seated behind the orchestra and backed by a rough brick wall, register intense amusement. A fiddler stands up to snuff a single wall-candle. Below, three members of the orchestra play, grotesquely weeping; behind them are the pittites, also burlesqued, except for a good-looking young couple. A woman tries to revive a fat and fainting man with a smelling-bottle. Above their heads is a gallery, with two footmen in livery, two ladies, and an elderly parson. All shed tears, or otherwise express their grief."--Description of alternate state in the British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Tragedy in London.

Topics:

City & town life.
Manners & customs.
Theater audiences.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Riviere & Son Binding.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Caricatures.
Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1807.

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:

807.05.29.01.1
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8

Orbis Record:

8711262

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr10887

Citation:

Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 74

OID:

15814022

PID:

digcoll:2783061