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The dead alive!
Title
The dead alive! [graphic] / H. Wigstead 1784.
Publication
London : Publish'd by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street, July 1795.
Physical Description
1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple ; sheet 29 x 38 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
"Plate 2."--Lower right corner.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"A couple embracing on a couch at right are interrupted by the appearance at left of a grotesque, stout, bespectacled woman holding up a groaning moribund man wearing a shroud-like nightshirt; the young lover has his hand on a paper lettered 'last will & testament of Mr Gripe' hanging over the lid of an open money-chest, full of bags which spill onto the floor, some inscribed with sums of money, one with 'Mortgage on -'; a large, ornately framed picture of a stern man in Tudor costume on the wall behind at right, bust of a bearded man on a window-ledge at centre."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 04, 2016
References
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 390
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1795.
Aquatints - England - London - 1795.
Etchings - England - London - 1795.
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