Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
House-breakers.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 09/Normal/Prints/Titles H GA 2014.00295
Identifier
ark:/88435/0v838768d
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1791/08/01.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1791
Extent
1 item ; sheet 32 x 37.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego I, pp. 233-234 (reproduced 1788, p. 293, 1791)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson 1788".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Drawn and etch'd by T. Rowlandson".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Aquatinta by T. Malton".
Depiction: The domestic felicity of well-to-do citizens being rudely broken in upon by robbers and threatening assassins. A very critical situation for all the actors concerned. Much depends upon the first shot--it is truly a moment of suspense. Whether the horse-pistols of the burglars will miss fire, and the formidable blunderbuss held by the respectable householder will lodge its contents - which would be, seemingly, enough to mow down a regiment - in the dastardly bodies of the midnight marauders, must remain a problem, the solution of which is lost beyond recovery.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Burglars—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Spouses—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Bedrooms—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Night—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Fear—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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a3fea555-646c-4dac-b294-444b0aad29ea/manifest