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• Author/Creator:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  
• Title:[Thieves] [graphic].
  
• Publication:[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1823?]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 24.2 x 35 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 29 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 curator.
  Attributed to Rowlandson by curator.
  Date of publication assigned by curator.
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
  
• Summary:Three robbers steal from a mother and child who are sleeping (dead?) on a couch; the husband, son, and a dog hide with rifles in a closet.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Etchings--England--London--1823.