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Private drilling
Title
Private drilling [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Schutz sculp.
Publication
London : Pub. June 1, 1798, at Ackermann's Gallery, No. 101 Strand, [1 June 1798]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; design 18.8 x 25.3 cm, with border 27 x 33.5 cm
Medium
wove paper
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: tobacco and snuff shop -- Military uniforms -- Shopkeepers -- Dishes: tea service.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate.
Companion print to: Soldiers recruiting.
Plate numbered "No. 5" above title.
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 'cit' is being drilled by an officer in his shop, to the admiration of his household. A drummer beats his drum. In the background are large jars of snuff."--British Museum catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2008
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9316
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 349
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1798.
Aquatints - England - London - 1798.
Etchings - England - London - 1798.
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