Weeping [graphic] / Woodward del. ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

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Title: Weeping [graphic] / Woodward del. ; etch'd by Rowlandson.
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Copyright Date: [21 January 1800]
Abstract: "A man dressed in a smock and neckerchief weeps as a well dressed woman, dabbing her eye, reads from a slip ballad."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Four lines of text below image: As laughter is often excited by the most simple causes, so frequently is weeping, in this instance the hard and obdurate features, that would be callous to real sufferings, melts at the fancied sorrows of a village love ballad.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Plate numbered 'No. 13' in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Literature: country ballads.
Title engraved above image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 22.3 cm, on sheet 29 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1800.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1800.
Subject (Name): Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Subject (Topic): Broadsides.
Couples.
Crying.

Access: Public
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Citation: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 2