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Soldiers attending divine service
Title
Soldiers attending divine service [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Schutz sculp.
Publication
London : Pub. Augt. 1, 1798, at Ackermanns Gallery, No. 101 Strand, [1 August 1798]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; sheet 31.1 x 37 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Imperfect, sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint statement supplied from impression in Princeton University Library.
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
"Sunday in camp; hill-side sloping to right where tents are seen in valley below, to left under tree chaplain stands behind make shift lectern preaching to soldiers and other figures, some who stand, sit or sleep in foreground and centre."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2016
References
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 407
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1798.
Aquatints - England - London - 1798.
Etchings - England - London - 1798.
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