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All a growing, a growing, heres flowers for your gardens
Author
Title
All a growing, a growing, heres flowers for your gardens [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Merke sculp.
Publication
London : Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand, [1 March 1799]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with aquatint ; plate mark 36.7 x 30 cm, on sheet 48.5 x 30 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below series title and number.
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 handsome young man sells pot-plants to a pretty young woman who stands on a door-step (left); a little girl beside her points eagerly to the flowers. He has a two-wheeled cart drawn by an ass; in it are small shrubs in large pots; two pots of flowering plants are on the ground. The background is formed by part of a palatial house having a portico raised on an arcade."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 30, 2018
Series
Cries of London ; no. 6
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9479
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 354
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1799.
Aquatints - England - London - 1799.
Etchings - England - London - 1799.
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