Do you want any brick-dust [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Merke sculp.

Creator:

Merke, Henri, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London]
R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
1799 February 20

Copyright Date:

[20 February 1799]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with aquatint wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.4 x 29 cm, on sheet 49 x 30.9 cm

Notes:

Title etched below series title and number.

Abstract:

"A pretty young maidservant stands on a doorstep (right) while a man, Irish in appearance, gazes insinuatingly into her face as he fills her bowl with brick-dust from a jar. He has an ass which stands patiently, a double sack pannier-wise across his back and a second jar or measure standing on the sack. The profile of a shrewish old woman looks through the door at the couple, who are intent on each other. A dog barks at the girl. Behind is a street, the nearer houses tall the farther ones lower and gabled. At the doorway opposite a woman appears to be giving food to a poor woman and child. A man and woman lean from the attic windows of adjacent houses to converse. A little chimney-sweep emerges from a chimney, waving his brush."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Cries of London ; no. 4

Topics:

Bricklayers.
Charity.
Chimney sweeps.
City & town life.
Dogs.
Donkeys.
Street vendors.
Women domestics.

Topics:

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.

Language:

English

Genre:

Aquatints--England--London--1799.
Etchings--England--London--1799.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1799.

Format:

Image

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 6

Orbis Record:

12787252

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11792547

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9477
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 354

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11791743

PID:

digcoll:3996421