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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.339
People
Thomas Rowlandson, British (London, England 1756 - 1827 London, England)
After George Moutard Woodward, British (Stanton Hall, England 1760 - 1809 London, England)
Title
Weeping
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Le Brun Travested [sic], or Caricatures of the Passions
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1800
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356965

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hand-colored etching
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
image: 21.8 × 17.6 cm (8 9/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
sheet: 27.9 × 21.8 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, above image: WEEPING No. 13.
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: Woodward Del
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: II 2
  • inscription: in plate, lower right: Etch'd by Rowlandson
  • inscription: in plate, lower center: Aas Laughter is often exited by the most simple causes, / so frequently, is weeping, in this instance the hard & obdurate / features, that would be callous to real sufferings melts at the / fancied sorrows of a Village love Ballad. [rest of inscription cut off]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 192

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jsrael Ber Neumann, Berlin, Munich, and New York, by descent; to Elsa Schmid Neumann, his wife, 1961, by descent; to Peter G. Neumann, their son, Palo Alto, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
BM Satires 9628-9632 (cf.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter G. Neumann
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.339
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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