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Compassion!!
Title
Compassion!! [art original] / Woodward delin.
Production
[England], [ca. 1800]
Physical Description
1 drawing : graphite pencil with black ink border and inscription ; image 22.6 x 19 cm, on sheet 28 x 21 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand.
Signed by the artist in black ink.
Date from Rowlandson's etching based this drawing.
Drawing numbered in black ink in the upper corner: 14.
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's Lot 238 [Car. II] to Seven Gables, 2 July 1968. Purchased from Seven Gables, September 1968; Acquisitions no.: 968-9-1-4.
Summary
A man places a coin in the hat of an old, one-eyed beggar who leans on a crutch.
Publications
Image later etched by Thomas Rowlandson. Compassion. Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2012
References
G.M. Woodward, Compassion!!. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.M. Woodward, Compassion!!. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1800.
Graphite drawings - British - 19th century.
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