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She stoops to conquer
Title
She stoops to conquer [graphic] / Rowlandson del.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, [not before 10 March 1811]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 26 x 35 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Reissue; date has been burnished from imprint statement, leaving a gap between "Pubd." and "by Thos. Tegg ..." in which only a lightly printed "181" is still visible.
Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. March 10th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11799 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate numbered "61" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 201-2.
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.
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.
Summary
"Scene in the vaulted ante-room of a dungeon. The turnkey, keys in hand, accepts with wary enjoyment the blandishments of a pretty young woman, whose interest is clearly in the fate of a handsome youth seen through the bars above a padlocked barrier on the right. A grotesquely obese and misshapen man (right) approaches the turnkey with a jug and frothing glass. Behind the latter (left) is a table with a shoulder of mutton and a small cask. A cat plays amicably with a dog. Heavy fetters hang from the walls, and there is a heavily barred door; a vaulted recess leads to a second dungeon. The place is lit by hanging lamps."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 03, 2010
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1811.
Etchings - England - London - 1811.
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