Bitter fare, or, Sweeps regaling [graphic] / Rowlandson inv.
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Description
- Title
- Bitter fare, or, Sweeps regaling [graphic] / Rowlandson inv.
- Alternative Title
- Sweeps regaling
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership. - Copyright Date
- [1812]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Abstract
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"A family of sweeps sitting before the smoking hearth (at right) in a low hovel, eating, drinking and smoking; all have sooty skin apart from the grotesque mother who leans back, barebreasted and negligently holding a long pipe, against a heap of sacks; a man sitting alongside and smoking a long pipe leers at her, another beside him; four children lie or sit on the floor eating with spoons from bowls, at one of which a cat also sits; on the rafters, above the billowing smoke, a caged black bird and an uncaged white bird."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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Date of publication from Grego.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Possibly a companion print to: Love and dust.
Probably a reissue of a plate first published in 1802; the year etched above Rowlandson's signature might have originally been "1802," and was seemingly modified to "1808" and then possibly "1812" before being mostly obscured with crosshatching. See Grego.
Title etched below image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 33.1 x 22.6 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 233
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12941343
- Object ID (OID)
- 11794963