Signiora squalini [graphic].

Description

Title: Signiora squalini [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 February 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. 1 Feb., 1803 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: A fat woman sits on a sofa next to a thin man as she sings and plays a lute, apparently very badly given the pained look on the man's face
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate numbered 'No. 4' in upper right corner.
"Price 1/col."
Printmaker from Grego.
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 18.2 x 12.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of price, plate number, and imprint statement.
Mounted on leaf 10 of volume 8 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 24.3 x 19.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1803
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Lutes
Singing
Subjects: Couples
Lutes
Singing
England > 1803
England > London > 1803
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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