2016.349: All the Talents

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2016.349

People

Thomas Rowlandson, British (London, England 1756 - 1827 London, England)
Published by John Joseph Stockdale, British (1770 - 1847)

Title

All the Talents

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

April 18, 1807

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/356977

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 20.1 × 12.2 cm (7 15/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
sheet: 21.4 × 13.2 cm (8 7/16 × 5 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left, below image, in plate: Polypus Designavil.
• inscription: lower right, below image, in plate: Rowlandson sculp.
• inscription: lower center, under image, in plate: ALL THE TALENTS. / Monstrum [illeg.]dum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademption.
• inscription: lower center, in image: Pub. April 18th 1807 by I. T. Stockdale, Pall Mall
• inscription: upper left, graphite: II 67
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 175

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 10720

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter G. Neumann

Accession Year

2016

Object Number

2016.349

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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