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all inscriptions on first unnumbered page, upper left stamped: BARTLETT & Co. BOSTON; center in graphite: ref Tooley / First issue, First state / ex-coll: J. T. Spaulding; uC //in graphite: all first edits; uR //in ball-point pen: 64-21-21a; uR//in graphite: all 3]h8ho; uL //in graphite: 3 vo ls / scaxx; on most plates, lLp//: Drawn & Etch'd by Rowlandson.; on most plates, uCp//: London, Publish'd May 1.1812, at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand.

Exhibition History

2006
The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007
2018
Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

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.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.132.

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