Terms and conditions of use
Botheration
(1785); published 1793
Medium
hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Measurements
24.5 × 34.9 cm (image) 26.0 × 36.4 cm (image and text) 29.9 × 40.9 cm (pen and ink border) 32.8 × 43.3 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 8393; Grego I pp. 173, 317
Edition
2nd edition
Printing/Publishing
published by S. W. Fores, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: T.Rowlandson del.t (t in superscript above . )
printed in ink l.r.: S.Alken fec.t (t in superscript above . )
printed in ink l.c.: Publiſh’d Oct 17 1793, by S.W. Fores N3, Piccadilly, where may be had all Rowlandson’s works. / BOTHERATION
printed in ink (in image) u.r.-c.l.: (text on papers)
Accession Number
1270-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Law, Civics and Protest
Subjects (specific)
barristers caricatures clients men (male humans) reading (activity) wigs
Movements
Georgian