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Accommodation, or, Lodgings to let at Portsmouth!!
Title
Accommodation, or, Lodgings to let at Portsmouth!! [graphic] / Woodward del. ; Rowlandson scul.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. June 30th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, [30 June 1808]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 34 x 24 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate numbered in upper right corner: 219.
Summary
"A (negroid) sailor, arm-in-arm with a woman, stands in front of the door of a corner-house abutting on a quay. She is gaily dressed, holding a parasol, and slung with gold chains, a miniature (cf. No. 10894) hangs from one, a watch and seals from the other. Above the door is a board: 'Lodgings for Single Men and Their Wives'. On the door is an inscription with a pointing hand: 'Please to ring the Bell'. The sailor says: "Why Nan-this is the very birth, we have been so long looking for". Against a background of masts and spars a sailor and a woman embrace (left)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Lodgings to let at Portsmouth!!
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 11, 2010
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 11139
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 89
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1808.
Etchings - England - London - 1808.
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