Mock turtle [graphic].

Description

Title: Mock turtle [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Contributor: Fores, S. W.
Published / Created: Jany. 24, 1785
Copyright Date: Jany. 24, 1785.
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 23 Piccadilly
Abstract: The profiles of an elderly and ugly pair, registering hostile anxiety, meet, their tongues touching, while between them is a punch-bowl. Just above their heads two doves bill on a branch.
Description: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-4-174.
Mounted to 37 x 30 cm.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Printmaker from Grego.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 20 x 24 cm
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings -- England -- London -- 1785
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1785
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Name): Fores, S. W.
Subject (Topic): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Bowls (Tableware)
Couples
Doves
Harvey, Francis
Kissing
Older people
Riviere & Son

Access: Public
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