Antiquarians a la Greque [graphic] / Rowlandson inv. 1805.

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Title: Antiquarians a la Greque [graphic] / Rowlandson inv. 1805.
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Copyright Date: [14 July 1805]
Abstract: "Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities include another mummy case, male and female statues, two sphinxes and a grotesque sculpture of a dog on a plinth decorated with hieroglyphs."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.8 x 28 cm, on sheet 39 x 29 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1805.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1805.
Subject (Name): Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Historians.
Mummies.
Sculpture.
Sphinxes.

Access: Public
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Citation: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 51-52