Aged lovers [graphic]

Description

Title: Aged lovers [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Hooper & Wigstead, publisher.
Published / Created: [2 January 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead and Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn
Description: Title etched below image.
From a series of eleven plates entitled "Love in Caricature."
One of six 'Lovers' prints published by Rowlandson in 1797, recorded in Grego in 1798.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Not age, with its cramps in full store ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Couples.
Mounted on leaf 66 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 26.9 x 19.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Etchings England London 1797
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1797
England > London > 1797
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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