Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A lawyer and a sawyer.
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00715
Identifier
ark:/88435/37720m81j
Publisher
n.d. [ca. 1804].
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1804
Extent
1 item ; sheet 20.5 x 27 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A01
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Lawyer in mouth of monstrous craw.
Watermark [partial], with date "1804".
Unsigned.
Title in TR's hand. 'Sawyer' is old British slang for a lawyer. Stylistically 1800-10. A crocodile with jaws open also feature's in Plate 1 of Rowlandson's illustrations for Baron Munchausen: The Baron arrives at Ceylon, combats and conquers two extraord.

Discovery Information

Subject
Alligators—Caricatures and cartoons
Animals—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature
Lawyers—Caricatures and cartoons
Horror—Caricatures and cartoons
Wounds and injuries—Caricatures and cartoons
Dangerous animals—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6e342207-c1a6-4a4d-94be-968ea59665cc/manifest