The school for scandal [graphic]

Description

Title: The school for scandal [graphic]
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Picot, Victor Marie, 1744-1805, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 August 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Augt. 1, 1788, by V.M. Picot, No. 6 Greek Street, Soho
Abstract: "A strip design on five plates of seventeen women of varying ages commenting upon a recent elopement, the words spoken engraved above their heads."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaves 20-23 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 on four sheets : sheets 27 x 51 cm or smaller
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Stipple engravings England London 1788
Material: stipple engraving with etching in sepia ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1788
England > London > 1788
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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