Genre: Etchings England London 1787 / Subject Heading: Poultry

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Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:: [1787]
Call Number:: 787.00.00.01.2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum catalogue, description of a variant state with different title
Alternative Title:: Cooks, scullions, hear me every mother's son and Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Variant state, with different title, of a plate issued with the title: Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat. Cf. No. 7187 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Peter Pindar's The Lousiad.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Subject (Topic):: Cooks, Servants, Poultry, and Dogs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son canto 2d. [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1787]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum Catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Variant state of plate issued with the title: Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 204., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto II. London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787], Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Subject (Topic):: Cooks, Servants, Poultry, and Dogs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat canto 2d. [graphic]