Details

Subject(s)

• Caricature [Browse]
• Grotesque—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Death (Personification)—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Human skeleton—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
• Item description: Three strips of caricatures on one sheet.
• Numbered in plate, upper left: "No. 15".
• Signed in plate, lower right [each strip of borders]: "Etch'd by Rowlandson.".

Source acquisition

Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.

References

• Grego II, 10
• See call no. (GA) R1800.6q

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