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A monkey merchant
Title
A monkey merchant [graphic] / Rowlandson 1812.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1812]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 29.9 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 34 x 26 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Letter "M" etched in lower left corner of design.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
For a possible earlier state from 1806, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 63.
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.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 23, 2008
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1812.
Etchings - England - London - 1812.
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