Dying for love, or, Captain Careless shot flying by a girl of fifteen who unexpectedly popped her head out of a casement [graphic] / Rowlandson 1810.

[London] : Pubd. May 10th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, [10 May 1810]

1 print : etching ; sheet 22.9 x 34 cm.

wove paper

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.

"A young officer in smart regimentals clasps the hand of a pretty girl who leans from the window of a rustic cottage; he points as if to make an assignation. On the wall is a placard: 'The Wolf and the Kidd'. An old man (right) trudges off to the right carrying a bundle. By the cottage is a pump at which are two old women, while a third looks from her cottage door on the extreme left; all register eager spite. A young woman walks off carrying a pitcher on her head. A dog barks."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state.

Captain Careless shot flying by a girl of fifteen ...

English

October 06, 2016

Teggs caricatures ; no. 52

Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 186