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A money scrivener
Title
A money scrivener [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, [1 January 1801]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 33.2 x 22.2 cm
Medium
laid paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Companion print to: A Counciller
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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
"An elderly man in old-fashioned dress stands at his desk, his right hand on an open ledger, looking down with a calculating grimace. He wears a night-cap and slippers; a pen is behind his ear. His high stool is behind him. In the background another elderly man writes seated at a desk. Papers spiked on files hang from the wall, and lie on the floor, with folio volumes. An 'Invoice' is pasted on the wall. Above a high shelf is the date '1800' etched over '1787', with 'R. 1788'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 25, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9783
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 22
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1801.
Etchings - England - London - 1801.
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