An anonymous letter! [graphic]

Description

Title: An anonymous letter! [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Abstract: An angry wife confronts her astonished husband with a letter from his paramour in which she suggests a rendezvous in the garden after the wife has gone to bed
Description: Title from item.
Earlier state published by Akerman on October 1, 1799.
Publication date from Grego.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.9 x 19.6 cm, on sheet 28 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Spouses
Adultery
Marriage
Subjects: Spouses > Caricatures and cartoons
Adultery
Marriage
Spouses
England > 1800
England > London > 1800

Access: Public
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