Spit fires [graphic] / Rowlandson del.

Creator:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[25 October 1810]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
"Price one shilling coloured."

Abstract:

"A scene on Clerkenwell Green, outside the 'Sessions House Crerenwell' [sic], whose door is on the extreme left. Two termagants face each other in the foreground; one spits at her enemy, arms akimbo, the other tries to use her fists but is held back by an elderly man who grasps her round the waist and kicks her, losing his tie-wig. The former woman is fashionably, the latter roughly, dressed. Both have coarse faces with a certain comeliness. In the background constables with staves are shepherding women through the door of the Sessions House, where the Middlesex magistrates sat. Other constables and women are suggested behind the 'Spit Fires'. On the right are old-fashioned gabled houses."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Spitfires
Tegg's caricatures ; no. 44

Topics:

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1810.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1810.
Watermarks (Paper)--R & T.--CtY-BR

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Source Title:

Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.

Call Number:

75
W87
807 v.1

Orbis Record:

12846563

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr11325

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 11634
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 192-3

OID:

16192479

PID:

digcoll:4046359