Deadly lively [graphic]

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Title: Deadly lively [graphic]
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created: [1815]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A drinking scene; a drunken man carousing with two women, raising a glass into which Death, a crowned skeleton standing behind him, pours a liquid from a small bottle, a great quantity of steam or smoke rising off; one of the women lies asleep on the floor in front of the table, breasts exposed and a spilling glass in her hand, the other is falling off her chair at left, horrified, having spied Death; a dog and discarded flagon at lower left, a caged bird hanging from the ceiling, barrels of 'Old Tom' behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from Grego.
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 55 of volume 13 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 34.4 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1815
Etchings England London 1815
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Death (Personification).
Alcoholism
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Poisons
Skeletons
Birdcages
Birds
Dogs
Loss of consciousness
Eating & drinking
Barrels
Subjects: Death (Personification).
Alcoholism
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Poisons
Skeletons
Birdcages
Birds
Dogs
Loss of consciousness
Eating & drinking
Barrels
England > 1815
England > London > 1815
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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