Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Concordia discors. -- Hor.

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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827

Concordia discors. -- Hor.

[London] : [publisher not recorded], [1788].
etching,
image: 127 x 161 mm (oval); sheet: 136 x 172 mm
Peel 1611
Notes
Caption title; trimmed etching removed from a copy of the illustrated title page for Charles Shillito's The country book-club. A poem (London : Printed for the author, 1788), with the title and imprint cut away.
Library's copy cropped and trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Oval design shows six men, intended to represent members of a country book club, seated around a table at an inn, talking and smoking as a young woman hands one of them a tankard; placards on the walls behind them read, "Rules of this club 1788", "The Garland all ye that come", "Glenville on witches", and "Liberty of the Press".

Associated names
Shillito, Charles. Country book-club.
Dunthorne, Jas., active 1783-1792, After.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 former owner.
Classification
Department