A young tightrope walker balances herself as she walks across the wire high above a crowd a fashionable dressed crowd of men, women, and children in a large field surrounded by trees. A fireworks display brightens the sky as the sun sets behind the trees
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published May 18, 1822, by Thos. Kelly, 27 Paternoster Row
"View of the Thames at Richmond, the river at right, a man standing up in a barge in the foreground, other smaller boats in the water beyond; in foreground left on the bank, a man in a smock standing by three horses, an elegant party of three behind, looking across the water; beyond, a pavilion among verdant trees, a dark sky."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., Watermark: C. Ansell 1818., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"View of a substantial house with a stone wall and gate, set at right in parkland; in the foreground, travelling to left, a group carrying sacks and bundles of sticks, including a woman on a horse and several children, others following from the wood at right; two riders approaching the house in the mid-distance from left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., Watermark: C. Ansell 1818., and Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"A two-storey stone building at left, an inn sign above the door with a picture of a man, half-length with a hat and whip; a maid standing in the doorway and holding out a shallow tray to a horse, a woman standing by another horse nearby; at left, in front of an adjoining building, two horses with empty pack saddles, a man standing looking at them with his arm around a woman's shoulders; in foreground right, a child pursuing a sow and litter with a stick, a woman on a horse behind following three cattle, hills in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"A large stone cottage at right, with stone wall, a figure standing in a doorway looking out over a half-gate at far right, in the road in the foreground, a woman with a pail on her head and a man holding a horse, standing on either side of a group of three pigs; tall trees behind and at left, distant hill beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cottage in the Duchy of Cornwall
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"Life" in a billiard room, or, Dick Wildfire and Squire Jenkins "au fait" (awake) to the Parisian sharpers
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Carey, D. Life in Paris. London : Printed for John Fairburn ..., 1822., and Temporary local subject terms: Games -- Hand gestures.
Publisher:
Published July 1, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
