The Topers mistake [graphic] / Rowlandson.

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Title: The Topers mistake [graphic] / Rowlandson.
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Copyright Date: [ca. 1801]
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: Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Place and date of publication inferred from a reversed copy published by R. Ackermann. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored, ; sheet 27.6 x 21.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1801.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1801.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Eyeglasses.
Preaching.
Religious services.
Sleeping.

Access: Public
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