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Plucking a spoony.
1756-1827
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
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Metadata
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 15/Normal/Prints/Titles Pl-Ri GA 2014.00424
- Publisher
- [s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
- People
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- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Innocence (Psychology)—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Vices—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Drinking—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Gamblers—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Swindlers and swindling—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Recreation—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Card players—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Prostitutes—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Caricature
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Plucking a spoony.
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 15/Normal/Prints/Titles Pl-Ri GA 2014.00424
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/vh53x3829
- Publisher
- [s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1756-1827
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 24.3 x 33.1 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- References
- Grego II, p. 225
- Tegg no. 123
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
- Depiction: A promising young "spooney" is entering on life's dangers . . . "the fair sex, drinking and gaming" being the evils set down to avoid. The novice is evidently well advanced on the downward route, and has fallen among experienced professors of the plucking process. A gaily-dressed lady by his side a "decoy duck", of captivating exterior, is beguiling the senses of the self-satisfied dupe with various familiarities, while a smug stout person, dressed like a parson, is discreetly keeping up the spirit of the affair by filling the glasses and manufacturing fresh supplies of punch, which the "spooney" is imbibing freely and without regard to the consequences. A pile of gold and notes has been laid on the table by this very innocent pigeon, and opposite to him sits the crafty and accomplished "rook" . . . . Who, by a skillful manipulation of the cards . . . . Bids fair to succeed in leaving the pigeon "without a feather to fly with."
- Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson del.".
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Innocence (Psychology)—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Vices—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Drinking—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Gamblers—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Swindlers and swindling—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Recreation—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Card players—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Prostitutes—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Caricature
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/95ff6231-4af7-4549-871d-e01c4d5c0a9a/manifest