Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A mad dog in a coffee house.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 11/Normal/Prints/Titles La-Mi GA 2014.00343
Identifier
ark:/88435/fj236919h
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1809/03/20.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1809
Extent
1 item ; sheet 29.8 x 45.7 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, pp. 131-132 (reproduced)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Signed in plate, lower left: "J. Nixon, Esqtr. Delin.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson, scul".
Depiction: The advent of a nondescript animal, suppositiously assumed to be a ferocious mad dog, has produced the utmost terror and confusion amongst the grave frequenters of a mercantile coffee-house. All the city brokers, and pillars of exchange found therein, are scared out of their sober senses. Some, like the little Jew in the corner, are paralysed with fear. Others are trying to creep under the tables. A few are seeking escape by the door, which they are effectually blocking, and groups of affrighted fugitives are endeavoring to gain the refuge of the staircase.
Depiction: A select knot have made for the bar, and are flinging themselves pell-mell over the counter. The chimney and similar places of refuge, are eagerly sought. Tables are mounted. Comfortable citizens are thrown on their backs, like turtles, and trodden on, while the pressure of viler bodies above is expressing a stream of specie from the well-filled pockets of the overthrown. A cat, her tail swollen to abnormal proportions, is making a frantic rush into the midst of the cowering poltroons under the table.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Fear—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Animals—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Coffeehouses—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/feb1d4cd-af6b-43cb-a2eb-742a1b3996f0/manifest