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.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.3 x 26 cm, on sheet 22.8 x 28 cm
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

Access: Public
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