Oddities [graphic]

Description

Title: Oddities [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [January 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by T. Rowlandson, Strand, Jan'ry 1794 & S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "Five caricature heads, three in profile, two directed to the left."--British museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched within image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue; the digit "2" in "1792" in imprint has been etched over with a "4".
One of three plates by Wigstead and Rowlandson with the same title.
Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1794.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 18.2 x 27.5 cm, on sheet 22 x 30.7 cm.
"P-2" written in ink in a contemporary hand in lower right corner of sheet.
Mounted on leaf 63 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 : plate mark 18.2 x 27.4 cm, sheet 21 x 29 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Etchings England London 1794
Booksellers' stamps (Provenance) S. W. Fores
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1792
18th century
England > London > 1794
S. W. Fores
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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