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Seashore scene with pretty oyster girl carrying basket and other figures
Title
[Seashore scene with pretty oyster girl carrying basket and other figures] [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Pub. April 1, 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand, [1 April 1816]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 14.2 x 25 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Plate numbered "10" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides with loss of plate number from upper right. Plate number supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1860,0211.35.
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
"Scene on the seashore, with a pretty oyster girl with a basket over her arm standing at right, another young woman examining the oysters, a young man with his hand on the oyster girl's shoulder and another man leering from behind; a young girl and her suitor sitting on the ground at right, an old, hunched couple sitting looking on at left, cannons and anchor on the ground in front; shipping on the sea behind."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 20, 2016
References
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 312-4, 405
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Genre/Form
Etchings - England - London - 1816.
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