Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Admiring Jew.
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 01/Normal/Prints/Titles A GA 2014.00069
Identifier
ark:/88435/hm50v084n
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1785/03/03.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1785
Extent
1 item ; sheet 22 x 26.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego I, p. 153
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
Depiction: Caricature on courtship. An old Jew, who is evidently a man of substance, but awkward, ugly, and ill-bred, is twiddling his fingers and thumbs and pouring soft persuasions into the ear of a handsome and well-dressed lady, who is apparently a person of fashion.
Item description: Same style as "A Cully Pillag'd", "Going a Going".
Signed in plate, lower left: "1784 T. Rowlandson".

Discovery Information

Subject
Jews—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Courtship—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Older men—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e9115da6-0cf6-433e-824b-636585b3d226/manifest