Mrs. Clark's levee ; The Ambassador of Morocco on a special embassy

Mrs. Clark's levee ; The Ambassador of Morocco on a special embassy

Item Information

Title:
Mrs. Clark's levee ; The Ambassador of Morocco on a special embassy
Description:
In the top print, Mrs. Clarke stands on a round dais, under a canopy, receiving her clients. These are headed by six military officers; the foremost makes a sweeping bow, cocked hat in hand. Next is a fat parson holding a money-bag inscribed 800; behind is an obese doctor, with three other elderly men. In the bottom print, Mrs. Clarke, much décolletée, looks from an open ground-floor window of a London house, to see a fashionably dressed man, Taylor, walking towards her holding a sealed packet.
Artist:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Date:
February 20, 1809
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Satires (Visual works)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Holt Collection
Subjects:
Mistresses
Military officers
Messengers
Dogs
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852
Extent:
2 prints on 1 sheet : hand-colored etching ; sheet 35 x 23 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pn01d
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
No. 111 Cheapside : Thos. Tegg
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 146-147
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Holt; 1979
Notes (date):
Date from item.
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):
A pair of subjects on one plate.
Identifier:
18_03_000726
Barcode:
36666000175550