The last gasp, or, Toadstools mistaken for mushrooms [graphic] / Rowlandson del.
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Description
- Title
- The last gasp, or, Toadstools mistaken for mushrooms [graphic] / Rowlandson del.
- Alternative Title
- Toadstools mistaken for mushrooms
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher. - Copyright Date
- [not before 1 September 1813]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Publisher
- Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"An elderly old-fashioned doctor, holding his gold-headed cane, sits bending forward to inspect the tongue of his agonized patient. The latter, grotesquely obese, sits in a low arm-chair (right) with his lean and hideous wife beside him; a thin grotesque footman, his hair standing on end, stands behind the doctor's chair, leaning towards his master. All three put out their tongues, and all register dismay; the equally ugly doctor gapes in unhelpful concern. The grotesque heads are closely grouped against a high window. A grandfather clock (left) shows that the time is 2.22. A thermometer hangs on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
- Description
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"Price one shilling coloured."--Lower right corner of design.
Also issued separately.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 254.
Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. September 1st, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 12145 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
Plate numbered "210" in upper right corner.
Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate.
Temporary local subject terms: Thermometer -- Doctor -- Clock.
Title etched below image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35 x 25 cm, on sheet 37 x 26 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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8260582
- Object ID (OID)
- 11794978