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Production of an alehouse
Title
Production of an alehouse [graphic] / Rowlandson 1808.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1808]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 12.4 x 15 cm, on sheet 17.6 x 25 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Possibly an illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life; Cf. Rowlandson's print The production of a post house, no. 10859 in the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. See also the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.735.
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 military men and a dog standing outside a tavern, two at left, one holding up a stick, another in a confused posture at centre; the tavern, with the sign of 'The Crooked billet', at right, a maid standing by the door and a man leaning on the fence, both laughing at the soldiers."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Production of an ale house
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2016
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1808.
Etchings - England - London - 1808.
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