• Admiring Jew

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Call number:
  • D North 51/GC112/Box 01/Normal/Prints/Titles A GA 2014.00069
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 22 x 26.4 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Caricatures and cartoons
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
  • Depiction: Caricature on courtship. An old Jew, who is evidently a man of substance, but awkward, upper left, and ill-bred, is twiddling his fingers and thumbs and pouring soft persuasions into the ear of a handsome and well-dressed lady, who is apparently a pe.
  • Item description: Same style as "A Cully Pillag'd", "Going a Going".
  • Signed in plate, lower left: "1784 T. Rowlandson".
Publisher:
  • London : [s.n.], 1785/03/03.
Subject:
  • Jews—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Courtship—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Older men—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
  • City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Caricature
Date:
  • 1785
References:
  • Grego I, p. 153
Range label:
  • Logical
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
Location:
  • GA D North 51/GC112/Box 01/Normal/Prints/Titles A GA 2014.00069
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/hm50v084n