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Do you see anything black in the white of my eye Smoking the parson
Title
Do you see anything black in the white of my eye [graphic] ; Smoking the parson.
Publication
[London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 44.2 x 27 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Prudery.
Notes
Titles etched below images.
Two images on one plate, each individually titled.
Attribution to Rowlandson from the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog.
Restrike, with added titles and with nudity in the top image etched over. For an earlier state before these changes to the plate, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.753.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
Plate originally published ca. 1800?; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog.
Provenance
Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919.
Summary
"Two subjects are printed on one sheet, with a space between. Above: A middle aged woman points to her eye and seems to mesmerize man with a skull-like head. Below: one man waves a smoking pipe under the nose of another to wake him up, watched by a smiling woman who holds a foaming tankard."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog.
Variant and related titles
Smoking the parson.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2020
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1800.
Etchings - England - London - 1868.
Restrikes.
Also listed under
Field & Tuer, publisher.
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