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Patience in a punt
Title
Patience in a punt [graphic] / H. Bunbury Esq. delin. ; T. Rowlandson sculp.
Publication
London : Pub. 20 March 1803, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, [20 March 1803]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 18.2 x 22 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
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
Three elderly citizens in a punt which is propelled by a boy (left) wearing trousers. Two are fishing: one stands, 'chapeau-bras', the other, who is obese, sits in a chair. The third (right) sits in a chair smoking, his back to the others. The standing fisherman, who wears spectacles, has hooked a small dog. On the right, a swan swims toward the boat.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2016
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1803.
Etchings - England - London - 1803.
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