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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.365
People
Thomas Rowlandson, British (London, England 1756 - 1827 London, England)
After George Moutard Woodward, British (Stanton Hall, England 1760 - 1809 London, England)
Published by Ackermann & Co., British (1792 - 1991)
Title
Taste
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
April 2, 1801
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/357001

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 24.7 × 20 cm (9 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 30.1 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: Woodward Del.
  • inscription: in design, top: There Neighbour Jenkins, what do youthink of my new purchase - theres Taste for you / M.r Bronze bought it for me -I think he calls it a Chinese Goss or Joss or something like / that- what a fine grim countenance, and do you mind the Higgle-de-Gripkicks. stuck / all about him. something very deep and larned in that, I dare say, if one coud but make / it out.- Ill have him put up in the lawn, plump facing the road - D-m me how the stage coach passengers will stare. I should not wonder if it was to frighten some of the fellows / off the Roof!
  • inscription: l.l., graphite: II33
  • watermark: R... 1799
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: Pubd April 2nd 1801 by R. Ackermann No 101 Strand. / Rowlandson Scul.
  • inscription: lower center, in plate: TASTE.

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
Grego II, p. 33

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter G. Neumann
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.365
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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