A country club [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Published/Created:
[London?] :
[publisher not identified],
[between 1806 and 1811?]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 19.3 x 27 cm
Notes:
Title from caption below image.
Printmaker and publication dates from Grego. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. ii, p. 58, 214.
Artist from earlier print of which this is a reduced copy. See no. 7452 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge, and text erased from lower left corner of sheet.
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Abstract:
The interior of a bare and plainly furnished room in a country inn; a number of middle-aged and plainly dressed men stand waiting for dinner to be served. Through a door in the back wall a serving-boy enters with a tureen, followed by a stout woman carrying a turkey, who is followed by a man-servant. A man (left), wearing spurred jack-boots, stands in profile to the left to hang his hat on a peg. He faces a framed notice: 'Club Law". In the centre two men, one wearing top-boots, the other in quasi-military dress, face each other, grinning. A third tries to insinuate himself into the conversation. On the right a stout man stands at a table before a punch-bowl and a sugar-basin: his hands are folded and his eyes closed as if in prayer; between his legs sits a large cat. Beside and behind him a man with a bottle in one hand sniffs at another bottle. An irate man (left) stands at the end of the table, watch in hand. Above the door a picture of a mounted huntsman hangs askew. On the wall are (left) hats and sticks, (right) a map of the world in two hemispheres.
Topics:
Cats.
Eating & drinking.
Taverns (Inns)
Topics:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Language:
English
Genre:
Etchings--England--London--1806.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1806.
Format:
Image
Content Type:
Prints & Photographs
Rights:
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Call Number:
Bunbury
806.00.00.50
Bunbury 806.00.00.50
Orbis Record:
10177301
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr10720
OID:
15813924
PID:
digcoll:2783006