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Returning from a rout on a rainy night

Returning from a rout on a rainy night
1797
plate 83 from the Eccentric excursions series, published by Allen & Co., London, 1797-1818

Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
16.8 × 23.7 cm (image) 17.2 × 24.5 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark) 31.7 × 44.8 cm (backing sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Krumbhaar 304, 993; BM Satires 9146
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Woodward del
printed in ink l.r.: Cruikshanks s.t
printed in ink l.c.: London Published by Allen & Co (o in superscript), 15 , Paternoster Row March 25, 1797.
printed in ink (in image) (on shop front) u.r.: The / Original / SHOP
Accession Number
1280-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire
Subjects (specific)
caricatures men (male humans) pedestrians rain street scenes umbrellas weather women (female humans)
Movements
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)