[Slugs in a saw-pit].

Attributed to
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
London : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1791]
Description
1 item ; sheet 11.9 x 19.8 cm.

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Notes
  • Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
  • Depiction: Soldier and sailor in sawpit aim muskets at one another.
  • Unsigned.
  • Title indicates that the print has already been identified as relating to (perhaps as an initial preliminary sketch) a print Slugs in a Saw-pit. Not in the British Museum, but there is a copy of the print at Princeton (GA 2014.00490;) for another see.
Source acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
  • Grego I, pp. 296-297 (reproduced)
  • Rothrock no. A36
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