Boston Public LibraryEnglish Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists / Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Sailors drinking the Tunbridge waters
Item Information
- Title:
- Sailors drinking the Tunbridge waters
- Description:
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The artist has sketched the old drinking-well at Tunbridge ; a body of sailors, true British tars, find themselves, by some queer chance, which is totally unexplained, at the well-known watering-place, and, what is more mysterious, these sons of Neptune are in close proximity to the Springs. A comely, well-favoured, and smartly attired young damsel, the ministering nymph of the fountain which, in this instance, it must be confessed, closely resembles a pump is presenting a tumbler of the fluid, drawn by her own fair hands, to a sturdy ancient coxswain.
- Artist:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Name on Item:
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Rowlandson scul.
- Date:
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March 1, 1815
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Caricatures
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Sailors
Eating & drinking
Water
- Places:
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England > Kent (county) > Royal Tunbridge Wells
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 25 x 35 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pc748
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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No. 111 Cheapside :
Tho's Tegg
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 290
- Notes (date):
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Date from catalogue raisonné.
- Notes (citation):
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Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
- Identifier:
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18_03_000245
- Barcode:
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36666003331473
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