Mrs. Clarks levee [graphic] ; The ambassador of Morrocco on a special embassy.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [20 February 1809]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.2 x 24.2 cm, on sheet 41 x 26 cm
- Notes:
- Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title of top design from text above image; title of bottom design from text below image. - Abstract:
- "Above, Mrs. Clarke stands on a round dais, under a canopy, receiving her clients. These are headed by six military officers; the foremost makes a sweeping bow, cocked hat in hand. Next is a fat parson holding a money-bag inscribed 800; behind is an obese doctor, with three other elderly men. She says to them: Ye Captains and ye Colonels-ye parsons wanting place, Advice I'll give ye gratis and think upon your case, If there is possibility, for you I'll raise the dust, But then you must excuse me-if I serve myself the first. Below, Mrs. Clarke, much décolletée, looks from an open ground-floor window of a London house, to see a fashionably dressed man, Taylor, walking towards her holding a sealed packet. He looks over his shoulder at a yokel with a cudgel, who asks: I say Measter Shoe-maker where be you going in such a woundy hurry? Taylor answers: Dont speak to me fellow you should never pry into State affairs. Mrs. Clarke says: Open the door John here comes the Ambassador Now for the dear delightful Answer. Behind the yokel, evidently John Bull, is his dog. On the right is a house with a door-plate inscribed Mrs Weston."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- Mrs. Clarkes levee
The ambassador of Morocco on a special embassy.
The ambassador of Morrocco on a special embassy. - Topics:
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson,--1776-1852--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1809.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1809. - 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. 10
- Orbis Record:
- 9157817
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- General Collection, BRBL, Yale University
- oid pointer:
- 11793007
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 11218
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 146-7 - Extent of digitization:
- Complete folder digitized.
- OID:
- 11792954
- PID:
- digcoll:3997125