[A sailor's family] [graphic]

Description

Title: [A sailor's family] [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A sailor's family, on board ship; the sailor seated at centre, his arm around his wife or sweetheart, both looking tenderly at the baby held between them; a young woman, very décolletée, standing behind at left, attending to a young child eating at a table; a dog at the sailor's feet ar left, looking up at the family; above, rowing boat on a beam, and other maritime articles including barrel, gun and cutlass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from Grego.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on leaf 2 of volume 3 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 25.4 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 26.4 x 22.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Sailors
Families
Dogs
Barrels
Firearms
Daggers & swords
Subjects: Sailors
Families
Dogs
Barrels
Firearms
Daggers & swords
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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