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]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.744
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[London] : Pub. 15 May, 1815, by T. Palser, Surry Side Westr. Bridge, [1815]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Library's copy inscribed in pencil with brief notes identifying the subjects of Rowlandson's caricature.

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).

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