Chealsea Reach [graphic] / Rowlandson 1799.

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Title: Chealsea Reach [graphic] / Rowlandson 1799.
Alternative Title: Chelsea Reach
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Published / Created: 1789
Copyright Date: [1799]
Publication Place: [London]
Abstract: "Scene on the Thames near Chelsea; a large pleasure party of young men and women on a boat, drinking toasts, rowed by six watermen wearing jockey caps, a servant and two men playing French horns at the helm at right, where a union jack is flying from a pole; other boats on the water behind, bridge and church at left, the Chelsea Hospital on the bank beyond at centre."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Companion print to: Bay of Biscay.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Plate possibly first published in 1789. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 262.
Temporary local subject terms: Boats: shallop -- Chelsea -- Flags: Union Jack -- Musical instruments: French horn -- Musical instruments: flute -- Watermen -- Buildings: Battersea Church.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching and aquatint with roulette on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 17 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Aquatints--England--London--1799.
Etchings--England--London--1799.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1799.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.

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