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The last drop
Title
The last drop [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Pubd. April 5, 1811, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi, [5 April 1811]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 26.4 x 20 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue; year in imprint statement has been altered from "1801" to "1811." See British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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
"An adaptation of British Museum Satires No. 5172 (1773), the figures reversed and altered. A short and grossly obese 'cit' stands on tip-toe in profile to the right at a side-table, raising a punch-bowl to his lips. The bowl is supported by Death, a skeleton, who stands over his unconscious victim about to plunge a javelin into his head, his right leg raised in triumphant delight. On the side-table are a frothing tankard, lemons, decanter of 'Port'; on the ground, a row of casks, with empty bottles, a corkscrew, flagon of 'Usquebaugh', &c."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 12, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9786
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 203
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1801.
Etchings - England - London - 1811.
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