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A glee
Title
A glee [graphic] / Woodward del. ; Rowlandson scul.
Publication
London : Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, March 1st, 1808.
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.6, on sheet 26.6 x 36 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Date follows place of publication and precedes publisher's statement in imprint.
Plate numbered "41" in upper right corner.
"Price one shilling col[oure]d."
For a later state with beginning of imprint burnished from plate, see no. 11141 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 168-9.
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 men sit at a round table over punchbowl, lemons, glasses, decanter, and jar of 'Tobacco'. Above the design is the title of the glee: 'How shall we Mortals spend our Hours'. A handsome young man (left), wearing top-boots, sings with an ecstatic expression: 'In Love!' An old naval officer, wearing a cocked hat, with a wooden leg and a patch over one eye smokes a long pipe, and sings: 'In War'. The third, a gaping dishevelled sot (right), sings 'In Drinking'."--British museum online catalogue, description of a later state.
Variant and related titles
Text at top of image: How shall we mortals spend our hours?
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 26, 2016
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1808.
Etchings - England - London - 1808.
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