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Harmony
Title
Harmony [graphic] / T. Rowlandson 1795. Love / T. Rowlandson 1796.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. June 15th, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Stt, [15 June 1796]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and stipple engraving ; plate mark 34.9 x 25 cm, on sheet 37.2 x 27 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Titles etched below images.
Reissue with added stippling, altered signatures, and a new publication line. For an earlier state published by T. Smith in 1785, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2.
Two images on one plate, each individually titled and signed.
For an earlier state of the top image on the plate, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 174-5.
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
"[Top image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute. [Bottom image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Love.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 09, 2015
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 8738
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 8739
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 328
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1785.
Etchings - England - London - 1796.
Stipple engravings - England - London - 1796.
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