print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1977,U.507.11
- Title
- Object: Rural felicity or love in a chaise
- Description
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A couple copulating while riding an open horse-drawn chaise, the woman seated forwards and cracking the whip in her right hand, the man kneeling backwards on the carriage floor; copy of a print by Rowlandson, illustration to 'Pretty little games for young ladies & gentlemen...' ([London:] Hotten, 1872). 1872
Photogravure
- Production date
- 1872
- Dimensions
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Height: 170 millimetres
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Width: 116 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A photogravure copy of Rowlandson's original plate of c. 1800, for which see 1977,U.532, made as one of ten reproductions of erotic subjects by Rowlandson for 'Pretty little games for young ladies & gentlemen. With pictures of good old English sports and pastimes. By T. Rowlandson. 1845. A few copies only printed for the artist's friends'. This book was published in 1872 with additional letterpress by John Camden Hotten; a copy is held at the British Library, pressmark P.C.31.f.8.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Pretty little games for young ladies & gentlemen. With pictures of good old English sports and pastimes.
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1977
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1977,U.507.11
