The Corsican Spider in his Web

1808

Thomas Rowlandson

Artist, British, 1756 - 1827

Thomas Tegg

Publisher, English, 1776 - 1846

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with hand coloring on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34.8 × 24.2 cm (13 11/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 36.4 × 26.3 cm (14 5/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1945.5.854

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Grego 1880, Vol. II, no. 94

Artwork history & notes

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.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at lower right: Pub.d July 12.th1808 by Tho.s Tegg No 111 Cheapside; in plate, above image, at right: 246; in plate, below image, at left: Woodward del; in plate, below image, at right: Rowlandson scul; in plate, below image, at center: THE CORSICAN SPIDER. / in / His WEB!; in graphite at lower left in later hand: 16 [underlined]; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65085199

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