Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The grey mare the better horse.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 08/Normal/Prints/Titles Fo-H GA 2014.00269
Identifier
ark:/88435/t435gn09k
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1815.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1815
Extent
1 item ; sheet 35.6 x 25 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Not in Grego.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: A lady about to drub her husband, who stands shamed-faced and helpless at being caught in the act with the serving maid, a good favoured wench, now glancing over her shoulder at her fat master.
Item description: Reproduction, reversed, of "The Green Dragon".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson invt. 1815".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Adultery—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Women household employees—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Spouses—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Jealousy—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/18755696-c47f-4c29-880f-bd295e5ca5bf/manifest