A monkey merchant [graphic]

Description

Title: A monkey merchant [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1812]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Letter "M" etched in lower left corner of design.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
For a possible earlier state from 1806, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 63.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 36.7 x 24.3 cm.
Mounted on leaf 28 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 29.9 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 34 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1812
Etchings England London 1812
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Monkeys
Circuses & shows
Subjects: Monkeys
Circuses & shows
England > 1812
England > London > 1812
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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