Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The attack.
Call Number
C South 02/Drawer 06/GC112/Half Folio/Prints GA 2014.00776
Identifier
ark:/88435/xk81jt47q
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1791/03/01.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1791
Extent
1 item ; sheet 39.8 x 53.3 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego I, p. 289
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
Depiction: A gentleman who is driving four horses harnessed to a sort of curricle, with an elegant and fashionably-dressed female by his side, is thrown into consternation by the sudden apparition of a mounted knight of the road, who, seated on a high-mettled steed, is presenting a pistol full at the driver. The traveller's servant, dressed in his livery, and mounted on a cob, is brought up suddenly by the stopping of his master's vehicle; his face indicates the greatest astonishment at the demeanor of the highwayman and alarm at the unforeseen danger to which his patron is exposed; it does not, however, occur to him to render any assistance.
Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson 1791".

Discovery Information

Subject
Couples—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Travelers—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Brigands and robbers—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Transportation—Great Britain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Carriages and carts—Great Britain—History—18th century Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b3bd553e-82e6-4809-907d-a82e438f15b7/manifest