A cake in danger [graphic] / Rowlandson.

Creator:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[20 April 1806]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35.3 x 25 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Original imprint statement partially burnished out and scratched through but legible.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW
For a description of the original imprint see no. 10646 Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.

Abstract:

A night scene (or early morning) in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in a watchman's box; the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Clown. Gay's Trivia.--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Pickpockets.
Prostitutes.
Watchmen.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Riviere & Son Binding.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1806.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1806.

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:

806.04.20.01+

Orbis Record:

8533355

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr10657

Citation:

Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 58

OID:

15813874

PID:

digcoll:2783160