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The gallant's downfall
Title
[The gallant's downfall] [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Pub. Jany. 1 - 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand, [1 January 1816]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; design 125 x 212 mm
Local Notes
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Notes
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death.
Couplet etched below image: The assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd.
Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 241.
Summary
"The corner of a house seen from a walled garden. Death throws down a ladder which gave access to a window from which a distraught girl looks out; her lover, a young lieutenant, falls from it towards a pond, while an elderly colonel, the father, fires a blunderbuss towards cats on the wall, the charge being intercepted by the falling man. A prancing dog barks."--British Museum catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 31, 2022
References
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Five hundred years of medicine in art, 140.8
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9, no. 12848
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 350
Subjects
Genre/Form
Book illustrations.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1816.
Etchings - England - London - 1816.
Aquatints - England - London - 1816.
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