Four o'Clock in Town, 1788

Not on View

Medium

etching and aquatint with hand coloring on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.6 × 39.6 cm (12 1/16 × 15 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Grego 1880, Vol. I, no. 280

Accession Number

1945.5.113

Artists / Makers

Thomas Rowlandson (artist) British, 1756 - 1827

J. Harris (publisher) English, active 1787-1800

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at center: Four o'Clock in Town.; in plate, below image, at left: Design'd & Etch/d by T. Rowlandson; in plate, below image, at right: Pub. Oct.r 20 1788 by J. Harris, Dean Street, Soho; at lower left in graphite in later hand: I 280; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: B 35742 B-11, 288; at lower right in graphite in later hand: 17 3/8 x 20 1/2 2 NO

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: in purple ink in oval: Eduard Fuchs Zehlendorf b. Berlin; Wannseebahn [not in Lugt]

Provenance

Eduard Fuchs (1870-1940), Berlin and Paris

Associated Names

Fuchs, Eduard
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1880: Grego, Joseph. Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures. 2 vols. London: Chattoand Windus, 1880. Reprint. New York: Collector's Editions, 1970.