Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
I smell a rat or a rogue in grain.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 10/Normal/Prints/Titles I-La GA 2014.00300
Identifier
ark:/88435/00000714s
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1807/05/16.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1807
Extent
1 item ; sheet 23.1 x 32.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, pp. 73-74
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson 1807".
Depiction: An exuberant rustic charmer has been entertaining a fashionable visitor in a granary. A party of rustics, mounting the ladder, have disturbed the interview. A powdered, pig-tailed, and lace-ruffled dandy has sought concealment amidst the sacks of grain. His head appears over the barrier in sheer dismay, for a determined farm-help, probably the legitimate swain of the indignant damsel, armed with a formidable pitch-fork, is making reckless efforts to impale the trespasser. His fury is slightly restrained by the stalwart exertions of the lady, who has buried her fingers in the village Othello's shock head of hair. At his feet is a scroll with the quotation "I smell a rat, dead for a ducat." A bill, pinned on the wall, set forth "Rats, pole cats, and all sorts of vermin effectively destroyed."

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Adultery—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Jealousy—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/2543a31f-499b-4516-83df-74ec58caaa74/manifest