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Sorrow's dry, or, A cure for the heart ache
Title
Sorrow's dry, or, A cure for the heart ache [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Design'd and pubd. by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi, Sept. 12, 1811.
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 34.3 x 23 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Reissue; the year "1802" at end of imprint statement has been altered to "1811," as has the year inscribed on the coffin lid within design. See Grego.
Four lines of quoted text below title: "Were I not resolv'd against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curs'd with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again. Dryden.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
For the original issue from 1802, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 39-41.
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.
Variant and related titles
Cure for the heart ache
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 13, 2016
References
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 210
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1802.
Etchings - England - London - 1811.
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