print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1878,0511.703
- Title
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Object: Grinder.
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Series: Characteristic sketches of the lower orders
- Description
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Street-scene; a knife-grinder at work on a large blade, standing at left, watched by a bareheaded young woman standing next to him, holding a baby, at right a woman wearing a shawl and bonnet, carrying a covered basket, and a dog lying on the ground; cottages behind. 1823
Hand-coloured etching with stipple
- Production date
- 1820-1823
- Dimensions
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Height: 135 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 85 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment see 1878,0511.659.
A study in the same direction is in the Mellon collection at Yale, see J. Baskett and D. Snelgrove, 'The drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection' (London, 1977), p. 48, cat. no. 179.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Leigh's New Picture of London
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,0511.703
