Hackney assembly [graphic]

Description

Title: Hackney assembly [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1812]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A satire set in an assembly room: Two well-dressed older men with caricatured faces, one with gloves and a large belly, bow to a old woman equally caricatured. The other members of the party are also caricatured in the background, some dancing. Musicians play in the balcony above on the right
Description: Title etched below image.
Probably a reissue; date following Rowlandson's signature has most likely been altered from "1802." See Grego.
Text below title: Graces, the Graces, remember the Graces.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on leaf 21 of volume 12 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 : plate mark 21.3 x 26 cm, on sheet 22.8 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1812
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Balls (Parties)
Couples
Dance
Manners & customs
Musicians
Subjects: Balls (Parties)
Couples
Dance
Manners & customs
Musicians
England > 1802
England > London > 1812
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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