Dying for love : Or Captain Careless shot flying by a girl of fifteen who unexpectedly popped her head out of a casement

Dying for love

Item Information

Title:
Dying for love : Or Captain Careless shot flying by a girl of fifteen who unexpectedly popped her head out of a casement
Title (alt.):
Kissing for love
Description:
A gallant officer engaged in amorous dalliance with a tender-hearted fair, who is leaning out of a cottage window to receive the courtesies of the dashing warrior.
Artist:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Name on Item:
Rowlandson 1810
Date:
May 10, 1810
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:
The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5
Subjects:
Military officers
Courtship
Windows
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pj286
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
No. 111 Cheapside : Tho's Tegg
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Alternative title from catalogue raisonné.
Grego, II, p. 115, 186
On item: Tegg's Caricatures. No. 52
Notes (acquisition):
The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
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):
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:
18_03_000549
Barcode:
36666003260813