The miser's prayer.

Etcher
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
[London] : [s.n.], 1801/02/10.
Description
1 item ; sheet 43.6 x 25.1 cm.

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Notes
  • Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
  • Depiction: The devotions of Old Avarice, which are necessarily very profound and earnest, are offered appropriately at the feet of his divinity, "Plutus, God of Riches." The temple of wealth is not exteriorly sumptuous. The carpet is a rag. A strong box,.
  • Signed in plate, lower left: "Woodward del".
  • Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson scul.".
Source acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 30
Other title(s)
Prayers and Journals
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