The rabbit merchant

Title:: The rabbit merchant
Description:: The view of a country street ; a rabbit seller, with a selection of his stock on his pole, is offering a choice to an old dame, who is somewhat hypercritical, and is employing a test which the rabbit merchant considers excessive and uncalled for ; he is represented as offering ' the retort courteous ' in justification of his goods.
Artist:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Date:: [1810?]
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Etchings
Caricatures
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:: The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 2
Subjects:: Peddlers
Rabbits
City & town life
Food vendors
Extent:: 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
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Publisher:: No. 111 Cheapside : T. Tegg
Language:: English
Notes:: Title from item.
Grego II, p. 115, 197
On item: Tegg's Caricatures No. 25
Notes (acquisition):: The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):: Date from item.
Notes (citation):: Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):: Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 2," the second volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
Identifier:: 18_03_000399
Barcode:: 36666003262652