The Topers mistake [graphic].

Description

Title: The Topers mistake [graphic].
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 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.
Date assigned by curator.
For similar design see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist v. 2, page 33.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: J. Budgen.
Mounted on leaf 73 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 35.7 x 22 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Watermarks (Paper) J. Budgen
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Eyeglasses
Preaching
Religious services
Sleeping
Subjects: Eyeglasses
Preaching
Religious services
Sleeping
England > 1801
England > London > 1801
J. Budgen
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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