An anonymous letter! [graphic]

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Title: An anonymous letter! [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 October 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Octr. 1, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Abstract: An angry wife confronts her astonished husband with a letter from his paramour in which she suggests a rendezvous in the garden after the wife has gone to bed
Description: Title etched below image.
Series title and number etched above image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Earlier edition of print described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 14.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.6 x 19.4 cm, on sheet 23.8 x 21.7 cm.
Window mounted on leaf 3 of volume 7 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 21.7 x 19.4 cm, on sheet 27 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Watermarks (Paper) 1798
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Spouses
Adultery
Marriage
Subjects: Spouses > Caricatures and cartoons
Adultery
Marriage
Spouses
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
1798
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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