"A man dressed in a smock and neckerchief weeps as a well dressed woman, dabbing her eye, reads from a slip ballad."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 13' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Four lines of text below image: As laughter is often excited by the most simple causes, so frequently is weeping, in this instance the hard and obdurate features, that would be callous to real sufferings, melts at the fancied sorrows of a village love ballad., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: country ballads.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Leaf 26. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room, across one corner of which is a large folding screen. Behind the screen (left) a man stands on a chair looking over it, while a footman in livery crouches beside him looking round it at a pair of lovers: a fashionably dressed young military officer sprawls on a sofa, with his arms round the waist of a pretty young woman. On the ground beside them a mandoline lies across a music-book. On a small ornate table are fruit and a bottle. The fire-place, chimney-piece, candelabra, and a landscape in an ornate frame indicate a handsomely furnished room. The man looking over the screen is elderly and dressed in an old-fashioned manner with tie-wig, flapped waistcoat, and sleeves with wide cuffs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, before S.W. Fores added as a publisher at end of imprint, see no. 8178 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 306., and On leaf 26 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Rowlandson, Strand, Feby. 1792, & S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Screens, Servants, Couples, Military officers, Fireplaces, Sconces, Mandolins, Clocks & watches, and Adultery