Nap in town [graphic] / Rowlandson 1785.

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Physical Description:
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; image 16.1 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 36.0 x 25.0 cm
Notes:
On one plate with: Nap in the country.
Title etched below image. Each image signed and dated, and each with an imprint statement below.
Abstract:
A companion print to BMSat 6868 on the same plate. A young woman (right) lies full length on a sofa; next her in the opposite corner of the sofa is an elderly man in regimentals, also asleep. The feet of both rest on a chair (left). A cat sleeps on the floor.
Topics:
Cats.
Chairs.
Couples.
Obesity.
Sleeping.
Sofas.
Topics:
Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Riviere & Son Binding.
Language:
English
Genre:
Etchings--England--London--1785.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1785.
Format:
Image
Rights:
These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
Call Number:
785.00.00.10+
785.00.00.10+ Impression 1
785.00.00.10+ Impression 2
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Orbis Record:
7680236
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr05656
Citation:
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6869
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 175
OID:
10727918
PID:
digcoll:551084