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Author/Creator:Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker.
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Title:A French family [graphic] / T. Rowlandson delin. ; S. Alken fecit.
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Publication:London : Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, [5 November 1792]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching and aquatint ; plate mark 38.6 x 49.3 cm, on sheet 41.0 x 52.0 cm
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Yale Holdings
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Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
- Status:No information available
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Notes:1 print : etching on wove paper, black and white ; sheet 36 x 45.4 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint.
Mounted on leaf 23 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
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Provenance:From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
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View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 792.11.05.04++
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Provenance:R.E.Lewis & Daughter; Fall 2012. Fuchs.
With ownership stamp on verso: Eduard Fuchs; and Kennedy Galleries, New York (with their label and stock number).
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Digital version
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Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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Medium:wove paper
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Notes:Title etched below image.
Exhibited: "Emma Hamilton Dancing" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, October 2013 - April 2014.
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Summary:"A companion print to BMSat 9670. In a squalid room French dancers practise to a fiddle played by an older man (right) who dances as he plays. The parents of the four children dance, facing each other. She is elegant, buxom, with an elaborate feathered coiffure. He is lean, wearing a tattered but well-fitting coat over bare legs, with sleeve-ruffles (cf. the old gibe that the Frenchman wore ruffles but no shirt). He wears a toupee wig with a long queue. A boy and girl, both with hair elaborately dressed, dance together more vigorously. A little girl (right) with bare legs practises the first position, heels together. On the left a boy plays the pipe and tabor to two dogs, one wearing cloak and hat, whom he is teaching to dance. His chair is the only furniture except for a truckle-bed (left) turned up to the wall and a much-tilted wall-mirror (right). A lean cat has climbed to a small cupboard recessed in the wall near the ceiling and licks a stoppered bottle. The cupboard contains a coffee-pot, a covered jar, &c. A print of two clumsy peasant dancers is pinned to the wall, from which plaster has flaked. All practise with serious concentration."--British Museum online catalogue.
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References:Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, vol.1, page 272
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Subjects:Cats.
Children.
Couples.
Dogs.
Dance.
Interiors.
France--Foreign opinion, British.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Fuchs, Eduard, 1870-1940--Stamp.
Riviere & Son--Binding.
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Genre/Form:Aquatints--England--London--1792.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1792.
Stamps (Provenance)
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Also listed under:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11142425