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

Published/Created:

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

Copyright Date:

[21 Feburary 1800]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.3 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 29 x 23 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9629
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 1

Notes:

Title engraved above image.
Plate numbered 'No. 7' in upper right corner.
Seventh plate in 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: Female attraction is frequently the cause of this passion, as above represented in the delineation of the old beau & the sleeping lady.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher's stamp 'RA' in lower right corner of design.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.

Abstract:

A pretty, young woman (right) sleeps, head in profile to the left, leaning against the back of a chair. An elderly man leans towards her, inspecting her avidly through his quizzing glass. The figures (three-quarter length) are cut off by the side margins. Beneath the design: Female attraction is frequently the cause of this passion, as above represented in the delineation of the Old Beau, & the sleeping Lady.

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Eyeglasses
Harvey, Francis
Leering
Older people
Riviere & Son
Young adults

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

800.02.21.01

Orbis Record:

8246161

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09789

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10952903

PID:

digcoll:951249