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Thomas Rowlandson
Forget and forgive or Honest Jack shaking hands with an old acquaintance 1799
hand-coloured etching
20.5 × 29.7 cm (image) 23.8 × 32.3 cm (plate) 30.0 × 40.4 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
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Forget and forgive or Honest Jack shaking hands with an old acquaintance
1799
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
20.5 × 29.7 cm (image) 23.8 × 32.3 cm (plate) 30.0 × 40.4 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
George 9413; Grego I p. 368
Printing/Publishing
published by Rudolph Ackermann, London
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.c.r.: Pub. Sept.r (r in superscript above . ) 3. 1799 by R.Akerman N101. Strand
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: Forget & Forgive or honest Jack shaking hands with an Old Acquantance _
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-l.r.: (four speech bubbles of text)
Accession Number
2403-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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