St. James's courtship [graphic].

Description

Title: St. James's courtship [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 April 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. April 10, 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from Grego.
Two lines of verse below title: Here like the fly, vice flirts the painted wing without, all saint within, a venomed sting! ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: headdress -- Male costume: night-cap-- Dishes: coffee service -- Coffee cups without handles, 1799.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.3 x 21.5 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text below image.
Mounted on leaf 13 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 34.9 x 30 cm, on sheet 41 x 31 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
Watermarks (Paper) Russell 1798
Material: etching with stipple and aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Eyeglasses
Jewelry
Older people
Young adults
Subjects: Couples
Eyeglasses
Jewelry
Older people
Young adults
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Russell > 1798
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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