• A lawyer and a sawyer

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Call number:
  • D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00715
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 20.5 x 27 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Caricatures and cartoons
Description:
  • Medium: Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
  • Depiction: Lawyer in mouth of monstrous craw.
  • Watermark [partial], with date "1804".
  • Unsigned.
  • Title in TR's hand. 'Sawyer' is old British slang for a lawyer. Stylistically 1800-10. A crocodile with jaws open also feature's in Plate 1 of Rowlandson's illustrations for Baron Munchausen: The Baron arrives at Ceylon, combats and conquers two extraord.
Publisher:
  • n.d. [ca. 1804].
Subject:
  • Alligators—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Animals—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Caricature
  • Lawyers—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Horror—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Wounds and injuries—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Dangerous animals—Caricatures and cartoons
Date:
  • 1804
References:
  • Rothrock no. A01
Range label:
  • Logical
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
Location:
  • GA D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00715
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/37720m81j