Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Too many children and too little charity.
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00757
Identifier
ark:/88435/ns064f14s
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 21 x 16 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A43
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Man with walking stick and nine children pass nuns in door of convent.
Unsigned.
Title below in TR's hand A basket of babies can be seen in several other Rowlandson drawings, and in Plate 1 of World In Miniature (1816) however this is a different, characteristically anticlerical, design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nuns—Great Britain—In art
Poverty—Great Britain—In art
Families—Great Britain—In art
Genre painting

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/26097b00-5507-4d93-8cca-bfd750766ad6/manifest