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Desire
Title
Desire [graphic] / Woodward del. ; etched by Rowlandson.
Publication
London : Pub. 21 Feb. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand, [21 Feburary 1800]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 27.3 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 29 x 23 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title engraved above image.
Plate numbered 'No. 7' in upper right corner.
Seventh plate in a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Two lines of text below image: Female attraction is frequently the cause of this passion, as above represented in the delineation of the old beau & the sleeping lady.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher's stamp 'RA' in lower right corner of design.
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.
Summary
A pretty, young woman (right) sleeps, head in profile to the left, leaning against the back of a chair. An elderly man leans towards her, inspecting her avidly through his quizzing glass. The figures (three-quarter length) are cut off by the side margins. Beneath the design: Female attraction is frequently the cause of this passion, as above represented in the delineation of the Old Beau, & the sleeping Lady.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 25, 2008
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9629
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 1
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Stamps.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1800.
Etchings - England - London - 1800.
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