The Corsican Spider in his Web, 1808

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Medium

etching with hand coloring on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Grego 1880, Vol. II, no. 94

Accession Number

1945.5.854

Artists / Makers

Thomas Rowlandson (artist) British, 1756 - 1827

George Moutard Woodward (artist after) British, 1765 - 1809

Thomas Tegg (publisher) English, 1776 - 1846

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Marks and Labels

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.