• Slugs in a saw-pit [copy 1].

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Call number:
  • D North 52/GC112/Box 17/Normal/Prints/Titles Sc-So GA 2014.00490
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 34.6 x 42.7 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Caricatures and cartoons
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
  • Depiction: Two heroes, naval and military, are endeavoring to settle their differences by an appeal to arms, the combat takes place in the bottom of a saw-pit, pistols and broken swords are strewn about and the two principals are using huge blunderbusses,.
  • Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson 1791".
Publisher:
  • [London] : [s.n.], 1791/10/28.
Subject:
  • Caricature
  • Sailors—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Soldiers—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Weapons—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Interservice rivalry (Armed Forces)—Great Britain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Date:
  • 1791
References:
  • Grego I, pp. 296-297 (reproduced)
Range label:
  • Logical
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
Location:
  • GA D North 52/GC112/Box 17/Normal/Prints/Titles Sc-So GA 2014.00490
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/w3763f85c