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Glow worms Muck worms
Title
Glow worms [graphic] ; Muck worms / Rowlandson 1805.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. July 14, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, No 1. James St., Adelphi, [14 July 1812]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 38 x 28 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Each title etched below corresponding image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Imprint and printmaker's statement in top design.
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.
Summary
Top design: A group of happy, cheering young men toast each other with wine as they sit around a table, a victory cup and wine caraffes on the table. In the design below "Muck worms" an group of older, sour-looking men over punch and wine, many in spectacles, one writing as they argue.
Variant and related titles
Muck worms
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2008
References
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 231
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1812.
Etchings - England - London - 1812.
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