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Deadly lively
Title
Deadly lively [graphic] / Rowlandson inv.
Publication
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1815]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 34.4 x 25 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from Grego.
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
"A drinking scene; a drunken man carousing with two women, raising a glass into which Death, a crowned skeleton standing behind him, pours a liquid from a small bottle, a great quantity of steam or smoke rising off; one of the women lies asleep on the floor in front of the table, breasts exposed and a spilling glass in her hand, the other is falling off her chair at left, horrified, having spied Death; a dog and discarded flagon at lower left, a caged bird hanging from the ceiling, barrels of 'Old Tom' behind."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2016
References
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 298
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1815.
Etchings - England - London - 1815.
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