Slugs in a saw-pit [graphic]

Description

Title: Slugs in a saw-pit [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [28 October 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Oct. 28, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark. CtY-LW
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Saw-pit -- Saws -- Duels -- Weapons: broken swords -- Guns: blunderbuss -- Pistols -- Bludgeons.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 33.6 x 39.3 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 37 of volume 4 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 28 x 33 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1791
England > London > 1791
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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