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A lump of innocence
Title
A lump of innocence [graphic] / Woodward del. ; Rowlandson sc.
Publication
[London] : [Thomas Tegg], [1809?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 31.6 x 22 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Companion print to: A lump of impertinence!
"Price one shilling coloured."
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement and possible loss of plate number.
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 fat, middle-aged, and meretricious-looking woman sits full face with a full glass in her hand, eyelids lowered, the fingers of her left hand spread deprecatingly. Beside her is a bottle of 'Coniac Brandy'. Above her head: 'Really Gentlemen if you gaze on me in this manner you will put me quite to the blush!' Large red stones or beads form a double necklace and bracelets, and ornament a fillet in her hair and her short sleeves."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 08, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 11464
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 166
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1809.
Etchings - England - London - 1809.
Watermarks (Paper) - J. Whatman.
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