Docto [sic] Convex and Lady Concave [graphic].

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Title: Docto [sic] Convex and Lady Concave [graphic].
Alternative Title: Docto Convex and Lady Concave
Doctor Convex and Lady Concave
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1802?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A man with a prodigious stomach and projecting nose and mouth stands at left in profile, opposite an elderly woman whose profile is shaped to accommodate his, having a crescent face with projecting forehead and chin, her body bent back and curved in at the waist and stomach, with bent knees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Description: Title etched below image; the three letters "n" are all etched backwards.
Printmaker attribution and date of publication from a nearly identical print with the signature "Rowlandson inv." and the imprint "Pubd. Novr. 20, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand"; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.593. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 41.
"Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter, is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?"--Text below title.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.5 x 20.0 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1802
Material: etching ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Obesity
Leanness
Physiognomy
Subjects: Obesity
Leanness
Physiognomy
England > 1802
England > London > 1802

Access: Public
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