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Nap in the country
Title
Nap in the country [realia] / Rowlandson '85 ; Nap in town / Rowlandson 1785.
Published
London : Pubd. by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho, [1785]
Physical Description
1 item : copper printing plate ; 353 x 249 mm
Notes
Lettered beneath each image with title; lettering within image on upper design: "Rowlandson. 1785."; below lower design: "London Pubd by S.Alken, No.3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho".
Summary
Two designs on the same plate. Upper design: A young woman lies under a tree asleep, partly supported by a small beer barrel; a rake is beside her. Next her a young man sits up yawning and stretching. A dog sits beside them; in the distance are sheep. Lower design: A young woman (right) lies full length on a sofa; next her in the opposite corner of the sofa is an elderly man in regimentals, also asleep. The feet of both rest on a chair (left). A cat sleeps on the floor.
Variant and related titles
Nap in town
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2003
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 6868
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 6869
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, p. 175
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1785.
Etchings - England - London - 1785.
Printing plates.
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