Is this, your louse [graphic].

Description

Title: Is this, your louse [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created: [n.d.]
Copyright Date: [1787]
Publication Place: [London]
Abstract: "The King, Queen, and three princesses are seated at a small dinner-table, on which is a soup-tureen, &c. The King holds a plate on which is an insect, turning round to address angrily a cook (right), who stands trembling beside him. Two alarmed servants stand behind the King's chair. The Queen and princesses make gestures of alarm; one princess (left) has risen from her chair in horror. On the extreme left stands a beefeater holding a jug, who lets glasses fall from a salver in his consternation. A draped window forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Date from British Museum catalogue.
Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto I. London, G. Kearsley, 1787.
Printmaker from Grego.
Title etched below image; source of the title "Lousiad canto 1st" as indicated.
Extent: 1 print : etching on laid paper; plate mark 18.2 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 21 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Book illustrations--England--London--1787.
Etchings--England--London--1787.
Frontispieces.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1787.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Charlotte,--consort of George III, King of Great Britain,--1744-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Cooks.
Dining rooms.
Eating & drinking.
Interiors.
Servants.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7186
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 200