Buy a trap, a rat trap, buy my trap [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Buy a trap, a rat trap, buy my trap [graphic]
- Creator
- Merke, Henri, printmaker
- Contributor
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Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist. - Published / Created
- [1 January 1799]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. Jan. 1t., 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
- Abstract
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"One of a set of eight plates, No. 7 (not mentioned by Grego) being missing, all having the same signatures. They may have been intended to burlesque Wheatley's 'Cries' (1793-7), from which they appear to derive. [The subjects are different from those of Wheatley, and there is no element of copying, but the group, with sentimental or humorous incident and architectural background, was Wheatley's innovation on the traditional single figure representing the 'Cries of London'. Cf. W. Roberts, 'The Cries of London', 1934, p. 12.] A ragged man, with traps of various patterns slung round him, and a trap in each hand, offers his wares to an old man (left) who looks from his bulk or stall, on which are a bird in a wicker cage and a rabbit in a hutch. A little boy and girl, hand in hand, stare intently at the rabbit. A dog snarls at two rats in one of the traps. A woman looks down from a casement window over the pent-house roof of the stall. In the background are a church spire and the old gabled houses characteristic of the slums of St. Giles and Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below series title and number.
Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 6 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 37.5 x 29.5, sheet 48.8 x 30.2 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 6
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Cries
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Aquatints England London 1799
Etchings England London 1799 - Material
- etching with aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Birdcages
Children
Dogs
Houses
Men
Mousetraps
Peddlers
Prostitutes
Rabbits
Rats
Street vendors - Subjects
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Birdcages
Children
Dogs
Houses
Men
Mousetraps
Peddlers
Prostitutes
Rabbits
Rats
Street vendors
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8184207
- Object ID (OID)
- 11791740