Sadness [graphic] / Woodward del. ; etched by Rowlandson.

Published/Created:

London
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
[21 January 1800]

Copyright Date:

[21 January 1800]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.7 x 21.9 cm, on sheet 29 x 24 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9630
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 2

Notes:

Title etched above image.
Plate numbered 'No. 12' in upper right corner.
Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Two lines of text below image: This passion is represented by an old maid who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite lap-dog.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.

Abstract:

"An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog (King Charles spaniel) which a [black] liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both are three-quarter length. Beneath the design: 'This Passion is represented by an Old Maid, who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite Lap-dog.'"--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 [Publisher]
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 [Artist]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Death
Dogs
Harvey, Francis
Older people
Riviere & Son
Servants
Single women

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1800
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1800

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

800.01.21.13

Orbis Record:

8227909

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09750

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10952864

PID:

digcoll:951182