drawing
- Museum number
- 1876,0510.764
- Description
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An exhibition of caricatures; William Holland's Print shop, the interior crowded with people, including in foreground to right, a young man turning to look at two ladies walking by, towards the centre a man with monocle and military uniform, an elderly man supporting a large laughing woman and holding a fan, seated figures behind in the centre, the walls lined with caricatures. c.1794
Watercolour, with pen and blue ink
- Production date
- 1794
- Dimensions
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Height: 447 millimetres
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Width: 677 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The drawing was acquired and catalogued by Binyon as by Robert Dighton. The correct attribution to Newton was made by M Dorothy George, on the basis of the print made from it, of which an impression is in the National Library of Wales.
Lit.: Simon Turner, The 'caricature of caricatures'" William Holland's Exhibition Room by Richard Newton, in G J Saville, Caricatures (Dealer's catalogue), 1997, np.,includes list of satirical prints shown in the watercolour; Alexander, pp. 7-9.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1986 Jan-Mar, London, Royal Academy, Joshua Reynolds, no.181
1998 Feb-May, Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Richard Newton
2000/1 Nov-Feb, London, Tate Britain, William Blake
2002/3, Oct-April, BM, Richard Newton (no cat.)
2014 May-Oct, Hannover, W Busch Mus, Hanoverians
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1876,0510.764
