Sadness [art original] / Woodward delin.

Published/Created:

[England]
[ca. 1800]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : graphite pencil with black ink border and inscription on wove paper ; image 22.6 x 18.7 cm, on sheet 28.2 x 21.5 cm, mounted to 38 x 27 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, p. 2

Notes:

Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand.
Signed by the artist in black ink.
Date from Rowlandson etching after this drawing.
Drawing numbered in upper right corner in black ink: No. 12.
Sold at Sotheby's lot 238 [Car. II] to Seven Gables, 2 July 1968. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Seven Gables, September 1968; Acquisitions no.: 968-9-1-4.
Three lines of caption inscribed below image: This Passion is represented by an Old Maid, who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite Lap-dog.
For further information, consult library staff.

Abstract:

An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog which a black liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both figures are shown three-quarter length.

Associated Names:

Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 [Artist]

Topics:

Death
Dogs
Grief
Pets
Sadness
Servants

Language:

English

Genre:

Graphite drawings -- British -- 19th century
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1800

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:

Drawings W87 no. 30 Box D180

Orbis Record:

10191704

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09751

Citation:

G.M. Woodward, Sadness!. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10952865

PID:

digcoll:951186