print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.10.146.a
- Title
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Object: The glutton
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Series: The English Dance of Death
- Description
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Death, javelin in hand, sits in an empty chair at the glutton's dinner, holding out an hour-glass, one foot resting on a dog. The ex-Lord Mayor stares in horror, chair overturned. His wife and the servants, including a fat cook, register dismay or alarm. Below:
'What do these sav'ry meats delight you ?
Begone, & stay, till I invite you.'
1814
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1814
- Dimensions
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Height: 135 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 217 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
Aquatint (coloured) to 'The English Dance of Death' (vol. i), written by Combe for Rowlandson's designs (72 plates). It appeared in monthly parts, 1 Apr. 1814 to 1 Mar. 1816, and in two volumes in 1816, with frontispiece and title-page (see Nos. 12857, 12858). The title, repeated in the index, of each plate is the heading to the opposite printed page. Below each plate is a couplet not from the text.
Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 317-36.
(Supplementary information)
Dated by M. D. George, 1 June 1814.
In the volume this plate appears opposite p. 68.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.10.146.a