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The chairmen's terror
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
17.7 × 23.1 cm (image) 23.2 × 28.7 cm (image and text) 24.6 × 35.1 cm (plate) 29.0 × 37.4 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Grego I p. 308
Printing/Publishing
published by Thomas Rowlandson, London
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Rowlandson 1792
printed in ink (in image) l.c.r.: Publishd July 18th (th in superscript above 18) 1792 by T. Rowlandson No (o in superscript) 52 Strand.
printed in ink l.c.: THE CHAIRMEN’S TERROR / Here, Chair, cries Barren Paunch with Venison cram’d. / Ay call away cries Paddy, and be damn’d.
Accession Number
1585.1-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
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