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Notice to quit, or, A will of her own
Title
Notice to quit, or, A will of her own [graphic].
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1 November 1808]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; sheet 33.3 x 25 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
A copy of a Rowlandson watercolor. See British Museum catalogue.
Later state, with a darker and thinner aquatint border replacing a lighter border that had probably worn from the plate. For an earlier state, see no. 11117 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint "Published by Reeve and Jones, No. 7 Vere Strt., Novr. 1, 1808." See British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 408.
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 dying and aged man reclines in an arm-chair, facing his lawyer who is writing at a table, evidently on the will; beside him is a treasure-chest. A pretty young woman leans over the scarcely conscious man, taking his chin, while her lover, a young military officer wearing a cocked hat, watches her through an eye-glass from behind the curtains of a bed."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Variant and related titles
Will of her own
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 29, 2016
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1808.
Etchings - England - London - 1808.
Aquatints - England - London - 1808.
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