Grog on Board, 1789

Not on View

Medium

etching, stipple, and aquatint with hand coloring on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 36.8 × 48 cm (14 1/2 × 18 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Grego 1880, Vol. I, no. 253

Accession Number

1945.5.115

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, in image, at upper left, on book spine: BYRON / VOYAGE; in plate, in image, at right center, on paper: Sweet Poll of Plymouth; in plate, in imate, at lower left: Rowlandson 1789; in plate, below image, at center: Grog on Board; verso: at lower leftt, in graphite, in later hand: B-35751; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: 5 [circled] / 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.