Thomas Rowlandson | Liberality to infirm beggars on leaving Yrvi, from "Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, Shortly Before the Revolution"

Title: Liberality to infirm beggars on leaving Yrvi, from "Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, Shortly Before the Revolution"

Series/Portfolio: "Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, Shortly Before the Revolution"

Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)

Author: William Combe (British, London 1742–1823 London)

Printer: Letterpress by J. Diggens (London)

Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (British, active 1794–1829)

Date: 1821

Medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

Dimensions: Sheet: 5 9/16 in. × 9 in. (14.1 × 22.8 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Accession Number: 59.533.1643(8)

Inscription: Inscribed below image center: "Liberality to infirm beggars on leaving Yrvi. / Pub.d at R. ACKERMANN'S REPOSITORY OF ARTS. 101 Strand, 1821."

Francis Harvey (British); C. W. Dyson Perrins(sale Sotheby's London, Jan. 12, 1959); Vendor: Sotheby's, London , Jan. 12, 1959, lot 163

Grego II.369, 405; Abbey 89.7; Not in British Museum Satires

Frederic George Stephens, M. Dorothy George Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. 11 vols., London, 1870-, Not listed.

Joseph Grego Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A selection from his works, with anecdotal desciptions.... 2 vols., London, 1880, vol. II, 369, 405.

The Grolier Club A Catalogue of Books Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, Together with a collection of original drawings by him, exh. cat. November 1916, cat. no. 46, p. 71.

John Roland Abbey, The Curwen Press, Ltd. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860, from the Library of J. R. Abbey: A Bibliographical Catalogue, vol. 1. London, 1956, cat. no. 89.7, p. 78.

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