The last drop [copy 1].

Attributed to
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
[London] : [s.n.], 1811/04/05.
Description
1 item ; sheet 34.4 x 25.2 cm.

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Notes
  • Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
  • Depiction: A short and corpulent bon-vivant, not unlike a balloon in figure, whose waistband has been abnormally distended by the bibulous propensities of the owner, is standing on tiptoe tilting up to his eager lips a huge punchbowl, too well filled to b.
  • Unsigned.
Source acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
  • Grego II, p. 203 (gives date as April 5, 1811/04/05, vol. I - Poetical Magazine; Bunbury copy)
  • See call no. R1785e, vol. 4
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