Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Deadly lively.
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 05/Normal/Prints/Titles Da-Do GA 2014.00175
Identifier
ark:/88435/7s75dm47m
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [1815]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1815
Extent
1 item ; sheet 34.6 x 24.5 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 298
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction The coarse humours of a spirit-celler are served up with a tragic accompaniment. A young female is stretched incapable and asleep, sunk in all the degradation of dead drunkenness. A man who is no longer master of himself is raising his tumbler, with a tipsy desire to have it replenished. The apparition of King Death, bony, frightful, and sinister, is grinning over the back of the soddened tippler's chair, recruiting his legions from a fruitful source he is supplying the rummer of the drunken wretch from his own vial, little more fatal than the fluid which is debasing and deadening its victims around. A stout woman, also sinking into tipsy apathy, is roused by the shock of finding the king of terrors added to the company she is thrown off her balance with a start, and, falling backwards on the stone floor of the vault, she will probably break her neck, as the artist's intention seems to hint and furnish Death with another customer.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson inv.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Alcoholics—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Death (Personification)—Caricatures and cartoons
Drinking—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Country life—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/b533e330-9820-4338-9ab0-e12dff4f56a3/manifest