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• Author/Creator:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  
• Title:[Net-fishing at sea. Four brawny men working with nets on the shore] [graphic].
  
• Publication:[London] : Published Augt. 1 - 1816 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand, [1 August 1816]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 24.1 x 16 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 14
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
    
  • 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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• Medium:wove paper.
  
• Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
  Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
  Plate numbered "29" in upper right corner.
  Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817.
  Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges with loss of imprint statement and plate number. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1860,0211.54.
  
• Summary:"Two scenes, one above the other: top: net-fishing at sea, a small rowing boat with two men at right, hauling a net in the water, a large vessel in the distance at right, a smaller sailing boat at left; below: on the shore, at right, four brawny men working with nets, one seated with bare legs passing the net through his hands, another passing it up to him, an assortment of nets and rods tied to a post at right, three of the men looking across to the water at left where three men are fishing with rods in a rowing boat, a sailing boat in the distance at centre, land on the far side of the water."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Variant and related titles:Four brawny men working with nets on the shore
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 312-4, 405
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Etchings--England--London--1816.
  
• Also listed under:Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.