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• Author/Creator:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  
• Title:Raising the wind [graphic] / Rowlandson 1812.
  
• Publication:[London] : Pubd. by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi, Octr. 30 [1812]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 33.8 x 24 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 12 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 etched below image.
  Reissue of a plate first published in 1805; the final two digits of the year in printmaker's signature have been altered, and the year "1805" at end of imprint statement has been scored through. See British Museum catalogue.
  Two lines of quoted verse below title: "When noblemen have lost race horse, and all their rino spent -, then little Isaac draws the bond, and lends for cent per cent.
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
  For the original issue of the plate, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 52.
  
• Summary:"A handsome young military officer, seated in an armchair, drinks wine with two Jewish money-lenders, who sit facing him across a round table. He listens with a reckless smile to one of the Jews; the other peers through spectacles at 'Title Deeds'. The Jews are old, thin, and bearded, but one wears a bag-wig. On the ground by the latter (right) is a paper: 'Money Lent on good Securities. Annuities Jointers [sic] bought and Sold.' By the spendthrift's chair lies a greyhound. The background is a wall closely covered with pictures in ornate frames, which combine to tell the young man's story. Above his head is a 'Prodigal Son' kneeling among the swine; above this a reclining Venus is partly visible, and below, 'Diane', a horse and foal. Gamesters at a 'Hazard Table' hangs above 'Sir Matthew Mite', a miser with money-bags, weighing coin in sacks. Below this is a bust portrait of 'Sir Peter Plumb' in a tie-wig. A bust portrait of a scraggy woman wearing jewels is 'Lady Crane'. Below this is a picture of a fighting-cock, the frame decorated by a baron's coronet. On the right are two pictures, a jockey on a race-horse, 'Sancho', with the winning-post in the background, and a large gabled country house: 'View of the Yorkshire Estate'."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10486
  Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 233-5
  
• Subjects: Eyeglasses.
  Soldiers--British.
  Usury.
  Wine.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1805.
  Etchings--England--London--1812.
  
• Also listed under:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.