Leaf 50. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A rectangular plot enclosed by palings and gate and surrounded by trees outside an old-fashioned country house (left). The plot has four rectangles of turf set in gravel which a fat man in a dressing-gown with a cloth tied over his head is rolling, a dog running in front. A fatter man in night-cap, shirt-sleeves, and waistcoat (split up the back) holds a pair of dumb-bells, turning to a young woman (left) who is sawing a log of wood supported on trestles. Beside the paling is a dove-cote on a pole."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Passing the worst part of a rainy winter in a country ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Passing the worst part of a rainy winter in a country so inveterately miry as to imprison you within your own premises so that by way of exercise ..., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10823 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806; see no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 123., and On leaf 50 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12, 1807, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James Street, Adelphi and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Fences, Gates, Trees, Dwellings, Dumbbells, Obesity, Dogs, Woodcutting, Saws, and Axes