Domestic shaving [graphic]

Description

Title: Domestic shaving [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Contributor: Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 August 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd August 21st, 1786, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Abstract: "A stout elderly man (left) seated in a chair shaves himself, while a pretty young woman (right) stands before him holding up a hand-mirror. A little girl is seated in a child's chair beside her father, she watches a cat and kitten at her feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
1 print : stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.7 x 20 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint.
Mounted on leaf 36 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 29.7 x 24 cm, on sheet 33.8 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Stipple engravings England London 1786
Material: stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cats
Families
Mirrors
Shaving
Subjects: Cats
Families
Mirrors
Shaving
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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