Falstaffs wedding night [graphic]

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Title: Falstaffs wedding night [graphic]
Creator: Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created: [October 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published October 1807, by R. Ackermann, Respository of Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: Falstaff is carried to bed by three men and a woman. To the left his bride arranges her cap in the mirror on a bureau. To the right a maid holds a candlestick and in her other hand a bed warmer. The large bed is covered in bed curtains; the room is decorated with two chairs and two mirrors
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on leaf 65 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 26 x 35 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bedrooms
Mirrors
Spouses
Subjects: Bedrooms
Mirrors
Spouses
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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