A Bait for the Kiddies on the North Road

Date1810

Artist Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1757-1827)

CultureEnglish

MediumHand-colored etching on paper

DimensionsSheet: 16 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (41.3 × 26 cm)
Plate: 13 9/16 × 9 5/8 in. (34.4 × 24.4 cm)
Image: 11 3/4 × 9 in. (29.8 × 22.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Colin Tolmie Naylor, III

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

InscribedInscribed (above image center, in margin): TEGGS CARCIATURES No. 12; Inscribed (Bottom Center, in margin): A BAIT FOR THE KIDDIES ON THE NORTH ROAD. / OR THAT'S YOUR SORT PRIME BANG UP TO THE MARK.; Inscribed (LLC, in image): Price per Shilling / Coloured; Inscribed (LRC, in image): Tho' Tegg No. 111 Cheapside;

Catalogue raisonnéGrego II.184, 401; British Museum Satires 11619BibliographyFrederic George Stephens, M. Dorothy George. Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. 11 vols., London, 1870-, cat. no. 11619, p.966. Joseph Grego. Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A selection from his works, with anecdotal descriptions... 2 vols,. London, 1880, vol II.184, 401.

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