Descriptive Information

Title

Breaking cover.

Call Number

D North 51/GC112/Box 02/Normal/Prints/Titles Ba-Br GA 2014.00116

Identifier

ark:/88435/9s161f26z

Publisher

[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.

Language

No linguistic content

Date Created

1756-1827

Extent

1 item ; sheet 37.1 x 27.4 cm.

Source Acquisition

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

References

Grego II, p. 90 (gives date as 1808/11/01, and Reeve & Jones as publishers)

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Medium: Aquatints, Hand coloring

Depiction: A fox-hunting party is passing through a village one of the Nimrods has seemingly formed an attachment for a fair neighbor standing on the back and saddle of his horse, he has contrived to raise himself to the level of the lady's casement, and she is leaning out of window, and rewarding his gallantry with a tender embrace meanwhile her husband in his nightcap, opening the shutter below, is securing a prospect of the proceeding, which has thrown an expression of idiotic consternation over his simple features.

Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson".

Discovery Information

Subject

Artists' proofs—Great Britain—19th century

Sexual attraction—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Hunters—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Spouses—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Older men—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Younger women—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/d3e36ec4-305f-4a82-b899-607f9c074f76/manifest

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