A visit to the tombs in Westminster Abbey [graphic].

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Title: A visit to the tombs in Westminster Abbey [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, attributed name.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: Octr. 23, 1789.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Abstract: A tour guide leading two men with astonished looks on their caricatured faces (one holds a simple walking stick and his hat) and a fashionably dressed women through Westminster Abbey, points to a monument decorated with the effigies of three knights
Description: Title etched below image.
Former questionable attribution to Newton from local card catalog record.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher's advertisement below title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints. Admitce. 1 shillg.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 43 x 30 cm.
Watermark: countermark W.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 41 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Westminster Abbey.
Subject (Topic): Staffs (Sticks)
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Tour guides
Tourists
Subjects: Westminster Abbey
Staffs (Sticks)
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Tour guides
Tourists
England > 1789
England > London > 1789
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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