Chealsea Reach [graphic] / Rowlandson 1799.

Creator:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827

Published/Created:

[London]
[publisher not identified]
[1799]

Copyright Date:

[1799]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and aquatint with roulette on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 17 x 27 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Plate possibly first published in 1789. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 262.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from lower edge. Title supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Companion print to: Bay of Biscay.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Boats: shallop -- Chelsea -- Flags: Union Jack -- Musical instruments: French horn -- Musical instruments: flute -- Watermen -- Buildings: Battersea Church.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Title written in ink on mounting paper below image, perhaps in a contemporary hand: Chelsea-Reach; same title also written in red ink on verso of print.
Window mounted to 25 x 35 cm.

Abstract:

"Scene on the Thames near Chelsea; a large pleasure party of young men and women on a boat, drinking toasts, rowed by six watermen wearing jockey caps, a servant and two men playing French horns at the helm at right, where a union jack is flying from a pole; other boats on the water behind, bridge and church at left, the Chelsea Hospital on the bank beyond at centre."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Chelsea Reach

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Harvey, Francis
Riviere & Son

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

799.09.00.02

Orbis Record:

8200705

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09554

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10941438

PID:

digcoll:951047