Books+ Search Results
At home and abroad Abroad and at home
Title
At home and abroad [graphic] ; Abroad and at home / 1807 Rowlandson.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Feb. 28, 1807, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi, [28 February 1807]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 30.1 x 21.2 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Two distinct designs on one plate each titled separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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.
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
Two designs on one plate. Design on top: A fat woman sits in a nightgown on the edge of a curtained bed while her husband (right) yawns in an armchair, glass and decanter beside him. He has dropped a (broken) pipe and his book: 'Memoirs of an Amorous Fat Rump'd Old Tabby'. She watches him anxiously, holding out his nightshirt to the fire (left). An elderly maidservant leaves the room with warming-pan and candle, looking over her shoulder much amused. On the chimney-piece by the bed are bottles labelled 'Restorative Drop' and 'Corn Plais[ter]'. A cat and kitten sit by the fire. Design below: A young man and a pretty courtesan caress each other on a sofa. Beside them are wine and fruit on a round table; a dog sits on hind legs looking up at the couple. Behind a curtain (right) a degraded-looking woman drinks furtively. See British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Abroad and at home
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 31, 2009
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10809 & 10810
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 66
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1807.
Etchings - England - London - 1807.
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
