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• Author/Creator:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  
• Title:The miser's prayer!! [graphic] / Woodward del. ; Rowlandson scul.
  
• Publication:[London] : Pubd. Feby. 10, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand, [10 February 1801]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching and stipple engraving ; sheet 42.8 x 26 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 7
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 44.3 x 26 cm.
    Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
    Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 7 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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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 801.02.10.01+
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ix; May 1954; Acquisitions no.: 954-5-9-84.
    
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• Medium:wove paper
  
• Notes:Title printed in letterpress below image.
  Three paragraphs of letterpress below title: Plutus thou God of wealth and riches, deign to listen to thy humble votary...
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
  Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
  
• Summary:A thin man in shabby clothes, kneels in prayer before a candle on a chair, bedcurtains on either side of the chair; his toes through his worn shoes. The window panes in his room are broken.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 30
  
• Subjects:Poverty.
  Prayer.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Prayers.
  Stipple engravings--England--London--1801.
  Etchings--England--London--1801.
  Broadsides--England--London--1801.
  
• Also listed under:Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
  Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.