Laughter [graphic]

Description

Title: Laughter [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
Description: Title engraved above image.
Plate numbered 'No. 9' in upper right corner.
Three lines of text below image: Laughter is one of the most pleasing of the passions & is with difficulty accounted for as risibility is frequently excited from the most simple causes. As is the case with the countryman & his cat.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, p. 655.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Countryman -- Pets: cat in clothes -- Passions -- Laughter.
Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of design: RA.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss. vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.2 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 29 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 > Stamp

Access: Public
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