Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A sudden squall in Hyde Park.
Call Number
C South 02/Drawer 06/GC112/Half Folio/Prints GA 2014.00824
Identifier
ark:/88435/jd473457r
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1791/08/12.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1791
Extent
1 item ; sheet 41.5 x 53.2 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Paston. Social Caricatures, no. 39.
Grego I, pp. 302-304
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
Depiction: The promenaders, in a state of sauve qui peut, are rushing off pell-mell in an attempt to preserve their dripping finery from the effects of a sudden thunderstorm. The park gates are crowded by the sudden exeunt omnes - pedestrians, horses and carriages are mixed in one confused mass in the struggle to escape from a miniature tempest. Peers and pedagogues, the man of fashion, in search of gallant adventures, and the hypochondriac limping parkwards to take the air. The ignorant, new fledged squire, the rustic dandy, whose head-dressing does not extend beyond the powdered and frizzed peruke, and the man of knowledge and philosophy, are thrown into violent contact, and unexpectedly realize whose cranium is the hardest, &c. &c.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Drawn & etch'd by T. Rowlandson".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Aquatinta by T. Malton".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Weather—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
Rain and rainfall—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
Pedestrians—England—London—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Crowds—England—London—18th century—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/8de1bda3-1289-4ea7-ba09-406a0b76f41b/manifest