The convocation [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The convocation [graphic]
- Creator
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
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Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, publisher.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist. - Published / Created
- [September 1785]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Septr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dusours Place, Broad Street, Soho. Sold by W. Darling, Gt. Newport Street, and W. Hinton, No. 5 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Abstract
-
"Nine clergymen stand in conversation, the most prominent being a stout bishop (right) wearing a gown and lawn sleeves; he turns superciliously from a clergyman who addresses him, and looks towards a stout parson wearing an apron in profile to the right, who faces the bishop, his spectacles pushed up on his forehead."--British Museum online catalogue, description of later state of similar composition
- Description
-
Title engraved below image.
Early state; for later state with different imprint statement, see no. 8203 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 2 of 14 volumes. - Provenance
- From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 30.2 x 38 cm, on sheet 31.5 x 39.5 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Aquatints England London 1785 - Material
- etching and aquatint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1785
England > London > 1785
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 12632142
- Object ID (OID)
- 11791428
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