The Topers mistake [graphic]
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11791857
Description
- Title
- The Topers mistake [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1801]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
From the pulpit a minister wearing eyeglasses (right) reads to his small, mostly asleep congregation a sermon from a pile of papers resting on a pillow: "He brews, ten and twelve!!" A sleepy-looking man with a bulbous nose and carbuncels (foreground, left) looks up and in a speech balloon above is head: And no bad stuff either let me tell you. I should like a to take a mug
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Place and date of publication inferred from a reversed copy published by R. Ackermann. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.3 x 20.6 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on verso of leaf 72 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 : sheet 27.6 x 21.1 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 7
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Etchings England London 1801 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Eyeglasses
Preaching
Religious services
Sleeping - Subjects
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Eyeglasses
Preaching
Religious services
Sleeping
England > 1801
England > London > 1801
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
- Catalog Record
- 8329988
- Object ID (OID)
- 11791857
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