Boston Public LibraryEnglish Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists / Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
A cat in pattens
Item Information
- Title:
- A cat in pattens
- Description:
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Though thoroughly in Rowlandson's characteristic manner the scene is somewhat suggestive of Hogarth's plate of 'Morning,' 'Times of the Day,' in which the portrait of Miss Bridget Allworthy is exhibited, the introduction of whose burlesqued resemblance is said to have cost the painter the loss of a legacy. An old maid whose countenance certainly bears a close resemblance to that of a cat, is shuffling along in the breeze on pattens; she has a boa and an enormous muff; before her trots a French poodle, clipped fantastically to resemble a parody of a lion ; behind her shivers a black page, in a tight gaudy uniform ; under his arm is his mistress's umbrella, and he holds before him a bundle of cat's meat. A half-naked and ruffianly beggar is trying to excite the benevolence of this shrewish Cat in Pattens.
- Artist:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Name on Item:
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Rowlandson inv 1812
- Date:
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1812
- 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
- Series:
- The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5
- Subjects:
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Walking
Servants
Beggars
Poodles
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 39 x 26 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57ph82s
- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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London, No. 111 Cheapside :
Thomas Tegg
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115
- Notes (acquisition):
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The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
- Notes (date):
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Date from item.
- 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
- Notes (object):
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Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5," the fifth volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
- Identifier:
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18_03_000526
- Barcode:
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36666003262983
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