Hocus Pocus, or Searching for the Philosopher's Stone, 1800

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Medium

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

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 29.1 × 33.4 cm (11 7/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Grego 1880, Vol. II, no. 5

Accession Number

1945.5.363

Artists / Makers

Thomas Rowlandson (artist) British, 1756 - 1827

Rudolf Ackermann (publisher) English, active 1794-1832

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: Pub March 12 1800 at R Ackermans Repository of the Arts N 101 Strand; in plate, below image, at center: HOCUS POCUS / OR SEARCHING FOR THE PHILSOPHERS STONE.; at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: 18 [underlined]; verso: in graphite, at lower left, in later hand: 247 / 2a; in graphite, at center, in later hand: g18; in graphite, in later hand, at lower right: 15 3/4 13 1/2.

Marks and Labels

recto: stamped in black in oval: PHILOSOPHICAL / BEAUMONT / SQUARE / M E [Beaumont Philosophical Institute, not in Lugt]; verso: none

Provenance

Beaumont Philosophical Institute, London

Associated Names

Beaumont Philosophical Institute
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.