Dropsy courting Consumption [graphic] / Rowlandson del.

Published/Created:

[London]
[Thomas Tegg]
[not before 25 October 1810]

Copyright Date:

[not before 25 October 1810]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 36.5 x 24.8 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate.
Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. October 25th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11635 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling coloured."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 193.
Temporary local subject terms: Courtship -- Medical diseases -- Dropsy -- Consumption -- Mausoleums.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii.
Watermark: Charles Wise.

Abstract:

"A grotesquely obese man (his hat placed under his plump knees) kneels at the feet of an ugly and bedizened woman, fantastically lean and tall. She holds up a fan, and looks down alluringly at her lover to whom she gives her left hand. They are in the circular portico of a 'Mausoleum' (right). In the background is an avenue and a statue of Hercules, towards which a fat woman and a lean parson of the Dr. Syntax type are walking arm-in-arm. The muscular Hercules is contrasted with the four other types of physique represented."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.

Variant Titles:

Tegg's caricatures ; no. 45

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Artist]
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Harvey, Francis
Johnstone, Henry Arthur
Riviere & Son

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1810
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1810
Watermarks (Paper) -- 1817
Watermarks (Paper) -- Charles Wise

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror

Call Number:

810.00.00.07

Orbis Record:

9170718

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr11223

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10964631

PID:

digcoll:974083