A Lump of Innocence

DateSeptember 30, 1809

Artist Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1757-1827)

after 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 (Top Center, in image): Really Gentlemen if you gare on me in this manner you will put me quite to the blush!; Inscribed (URC, in margin): 144; Inscribed (LLC, in margin): Woodward Del.; Inscribed (Bottom Center, in margin): Price one Shillinh Coloured; Inscribed (LRC, in margin): Rowlandson; Inscribed (Bottom Center, in margin): A LUMP OF INNOCENCE. / London Pub. Sept. 30th 1809 by Tho.' Tegg No. 11 Cheapside;

Catalogue raisonnéGrego II.166, 401; British Museum Satires 11464;BibliographyFrederic George Stephens, M. Dorothy George. Catalogue of political and personal satires presered 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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