Admiration with astonishment [graphic]

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Title: Admiration with astonishment [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 January 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: "A country man holding a heavy walking stick stares wide-eyed at a conjuror performing card tricks."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved above image.
Plate numbered 'No. 4' in upper right corner.
Fourth plate in a series of twenty: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, p. 655.
Three lines of text below image: This deviation from simple admiration is frequently put in practice at country fairs where some rustic inhabitant of the village gazes with astonishment at the hacnied[?] tricks of a juggler.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Temporary local subject headings: Rustics.
Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29.6 x 23.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Watermarks (Paper) Russell & Co. 1799
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Jugglers
Magicians
Playing cards
Subjects: Jugglers
Magicians
Playing cards
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Russell & Co. > 1799

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