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Christmas gambols.
1812
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Metadata
- Call Number
- D North 51/GC112/Box 03/Normal/Prints/Titles Br-Co GA 2014.00141
- Publisher
- [London] : [s.n.], 1812/11/30.
- People
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- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Caricature
- Christmas—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Household employees—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Drinking—Caricatures and cartoons
- Black people—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Lust—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Christmas gambols.
- Call Number
- D North 51/GC112/Box 03/Normal/Prints/Titles Br-Co GA 2014.00141
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/bz60d436z
- Publisher
- [London] : [s.n.], 1812/11/30.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1812
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 32.7 x 26.4 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- References
- Grego II, p. 235
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
- Depiction: The festivities represented, which partake of the free and frolicsome description, are taking place in the servants' hall. Full drinking has been the order of the evening. The master's cellar and the servants' heads have both been lightened simultaneously, and the results are displaying themselves under the mistletoe and in horseplay. A footman and a parlour maid are falling over one another indiscriminately on the hearth-rug amidst the fragments of crockery demolished in their downfall. A sturdy black footman is lifting a fat wench in his arms for a chaste salute. Practical joking is the order of the evening, the fat cook has been toppled back in her armchair, and is vainly flourishing her basting ladle to drive off her assailant, while her feet are in the air. The butler, as author of the mischief, is making the best use of his opportunities, while another couple are exchanging kisses with evident goodwill.
- Signed in plate: "Rowlandson 1812" [changed from 1802].
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Caricature
- Christmas—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Household employees—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Drinking—Caricatures and cartoons
- Black people—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Lust—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1aca1ca4-1358-4a64-84ed-63cf1c10f788/manifest