A Magic Lantern, 1799

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Medium

etching and aquatint with hand coloring

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 33.2 × 25.1 cm (13 1/16 × 9 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Grego 1880, Vol. II, no. 407

Accession Number

1945.5.742

Artists / Makers

Henri Merke (artist) Swiss, active 1799-1820

Thomas Rowlandson (artist) British, 1756 - 1827

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: Rowlandson delin; in plate, below image, at right: Merke sculp; in plate, below image, at center: A Magic Lantern / London Pub. Jany 20 1799 by R Ackermann 101 Strand, where a Great Variety of Transparencies & other fancy Prints are Publish'd daily; verso: none

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.