Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Catching an elephant.
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 03/Normal/Prints/Titles Br-Co GA 2014.00132
Identifier
ark:/88435/jm214x23b
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1812/03/01.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1812
Extent
1 item ; sheet 37.8 x 25.9 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 226
Tegg no. 146
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Two attractive and winsome damsels, standing outside of a portal labeled "Warm Baths", have just succeeded in capturing a man, whose bulk should fairly entitle him to take his place amongst elephantine monsters.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson del.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Seduction—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Obesity—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Older men—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Young women—Great Britain—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/9d00133b-7a2d-48dc-90b6-5470eca7fef3/manifest