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Summer Amusement at Margate, or a Peep at the Mermaids
Thomas Rowlandson1813
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Summer Amusement at Margate, or a Peep at the Mermaids
- Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
- Date Created: 1813
- Subject Keywords: beaches, satire, seasons, social satire, sports, summer
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “Rowlandson Del.”; inscribed in plate, lower right: date and publisher
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1965
- Materials & Techniques: Etching with hand coloring on wove paper
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Published September 1, 1813, by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Dimensions: 1827
- Bibliography: Grego II, p. 254; BM Sat 12144; see BM Sat 6758 on Margate as a “plebian watering-place”
- Associated People: Created by Thomas Rowlandson (British (English), 1756/1757-1827)
- Accession Number: 1965.14.5
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