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Croesus and Thalia : as rich as Croesus, as ripe as a melon / Rowlandson invt.

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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827

Croesus and Thalia : as rich as Croesus, as ripe as a melon / Rowlandson invt.

[London] : Pub. 15 May, 1815, by T. Palser, Surry Side Westr. Bridge, [1815]
etching, hand colored
image: 283 x 218 mm; trimmed sheet: 365 x 254 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.744
Inscriptions/Markings
Library's copy inscribed in pencil with brief notes identifying the subjects of Rowlandson's caricature.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows an ugly and leering elderly man, identified as the London banker Thomas Coutts, embracing the actress Harriet Mellon (later Mrs. Coutts, and subsequently Duchess of St. Albans).

Associated names
Palser, Thomas, ca. 1797-1843, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department