A Lump of Impertinence!

DateSeptember 30, 1809

Artist Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1757-1827)

Artist George Moutard Woodward (English, c. 1760–1809)

CultureEnglish

MediumHand-colored etching on paper

DimensionsSheet: 16 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (41.3 × 26 cm)
Image: 11 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (29.2 × 22.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Colin Tolmie Naylor, III

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

InscribedInscribed (URC, in margin): 143; Inscribed (Top Center, in image): Who the Devil do you stare at? / Get along about your Business.; Inscribed (Bottom Center, in margin): A LUMP OF IMPERTINENCE! / London Pub. Sept-r 30th 1809 by Tho.s Tegg No. 111 Cheapside; Inscribed (LLC, in margin): Woodward Del.; Inscribed (Bottom center, in margin): Price per Shilling Coloured; Inscribed (LRC, in margin): Rowlandson Sc.

Catalogue raisonnéGrego II.166, 401; British Museum Satires 114643;BibliographyFrederic 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. 11464, p. 893. Joseph Grego. 'Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A selection from his works, with anecdotal descriptions...' 2 vols., London, 1880, vol. II.166, 401.

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