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• Author/Creator:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  
• Title:The champion of Oakhampton attacking the hydra of Gloucester Place [graphic].
  
• Publication:[London] : Pubd. March 15th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, [15 March 1809]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.5 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 26 x 40 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.6 x 35 cm.
    Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
    Watermark: E & P.
    Mounted on verso of leaf 40 of volume 10 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: 809.03.15.01+
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Mounted to 28 x 43 cm.
    
  • Provenance:Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-10-39.
    
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• Medium:wove paper
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
  Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
  
• Summary:"Wardle in armour with plumed helmet and floating cloak attacks with sword and shield a hydra with seven heads, all in profile, each wearing an inscribed collar. The principal head is that of the Duke of York (a flattering portrait), wearing The Collar of Corruption. The others are Bowler, Clarke, O Meara, Master Carter [the smallest], Sandon, Dr Donovan [with a pen behind his ear]. A serpent lies beside the hydra. Behind is the mouth of a cave. Below the title: Bellva Multorum es Capitum!! vide Horace [Epistles, 1. i. 76]. ('Thou art the Beast of many heads.')"--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 11253
  Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 153-4
  
• Subjects:Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Snakes.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1809.
  Etchings--England--London--1809.
  Watermarks (Paper)--E & P.
  
• Also listed under:Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.