Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat canto 2d. [graphic]

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11791508

Description

Title
Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat canto 2d. [graphic]
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created
[1787]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum Catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue.
Variant state of plate issued with the title: Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 204.
Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto II. London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787]
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 72 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 : sheet 19.1 x 25.2 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Frontispieces
Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Subject (Topic)
Cooks
Servants
Poultry
Dogs
Subjects
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Cooks
Servants
Poultry
Dogs
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12661249
Object ID (OID)
11791508

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