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Thomas Rowlandson
The chairmen's terror 1792
hand-coloured etching
17.7 × 23.1 cm (image) 23.2 × 28.7 cm (image and text) 24.6 × 35.1 cm (plate) 29.0 × 37.4 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
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The chairmen's terror
1792
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
17.7 × 23.1 cm (image) 23.2 × 28.7 cm (image and text) 24.6 × 35.1 cm (plate) 29.0 × 37.4 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Grego I p. 308
Printing/Publishing
published by Thomas Rowlandson, London
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Rowlandson 1792
printed in ink (in image) l.c.r.: Publishd July 18th (th in superscript above 18) 1792 by T. Rowlandson No (o in superscript) 52 Strand.
printed in ink l.c.: THE CHAIRMEN’S TERROR / Here, Chair, cries Barren Paunch with Venison cram’d. / Ay call away cries Paddy, and be damn’d.
Accession Number
1585.1-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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