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Samuel Alken (etcher)
Thomas Rowlandson (draughtsman)
Botheration (1785); published 1793
hand-coloured etching and aquatint
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)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
Photo: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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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
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Law, Civics and Protest
Subjects (specific)
barristers caricatures clients men (male humans) reading (activity) wigs
Movements
Georgian