Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Refinement of language.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 15/Normal/Prints/Titles Pl-Ri GA 2014.00441
Identifier
ark:/88435/1257b136q
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 23.6 x 33.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 233 (Oct. 1st, 1812)
Tegg no. 60
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: A ragged match-seller is elevated into a "timber merchant". A postman becomes a "man of letters". A gardener is raised to a "Master of the Mint". A Jew hawker who cries "Any old clothes to sell" is changed to a "merchant tailor". A sexton, pressing down the mould on a grave, is transferred into "a banker". A poultry dealer easily becomes a "Turkey merchant".
Item description: Six scenes on one sheet.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Woodward del.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson sc.".
Numbered in plate, upper right: "171".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Euphemism—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Semantics—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/b08dddc6-be68-423a-93cb-133a826b48ce/manifest