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Quarter day, or, Clearing the premisses without consulting your landlord
Title
Quarter day, or, Clearing the premisses without consulting your landlord [graphic] / Rowlandson 1814.
Publication
[London] : [Thomas Tegg], [not before 30 January 1814]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 35.1 x 25 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 26 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Later state; former plate number "318" has been replaced with a new number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate.
Publisher from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Jany. 30th, 1814. Cf. No. 12399 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate numbered "259" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 274.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.
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
"Household goods are being piled into an open cart, which stands beside a corner house, the door being partly visible on the extreme right. The cart is already stacked high with mattresses, tables, &c. A burly muscular man stands inside it, taking things from a fat and slatternly but comely woman (right). She hands up a child's commode and is laden with bellows, warming-pan, chamber-pots, gridiron, &c. A pretty girl (left) brings a trap containing a mouse and a cage containing a bird. A pretty young woman is in the doorway. In the foreground two burly children play with a monstrous cat, surrounded by goods ready for transport. These are cooking utensils, mop and pail, flat-irons, &c."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Variant and related titles
Clearing the premisses without consulting your landlord
Clearing the premises without consulting your landlord
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 18, 2016
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1814.
Etchings - England - London - 1814.
Watermarks (Paper) - 1817.
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