A fresh-water salute [graphic].

Description

Title: A fresh-water salute [graphic].
Alternative Title: Freshwater salute
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created: [1799?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A Thames pair-oar wherry, with two passengers, a man and woman, is about to collide with a sturdier boat in which are three men and a stout trollop, whose shouts and gesture shock the passengers in the wherry. The river is wide, with trees on the opposite shore and a sailing-barge in the middle distance."--British Museum online catalogue, description of variant state
Description: Title etched below image.
Rowlandson attribution from artist's signature on variant state: Rowlandson delt.
For variant state with artist's signature, see no. 9464 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Date from Grego.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 50 of volume 5 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 17.5 x 24 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Aquatints England London 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching and aquatint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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