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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British, Kitty Overcome, 1821
- Title:
Kitty Overcome
- Date:
- 1821
- Medium:
- Watercolor, gray wash, pen and brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 5 7/16 x 7 13/16 inches (13.8 x 19.8 cm), Mount: 8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on mount in graphite, lower center: "N36 Kitty not to be overcome by the Doctors elocution - her suffers his passions | to overcome his Reason and is caught in the act of taking unwarrantable liberties"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, lower center: "The Doctors Passions overcomes his reason and attempts unwarrant | Liberties with Kitty"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.324
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cat (domestic cat) | chair | churn | dishes | dog (animal) | door | elderly | genre subject | man | mouse | shelves | steps | Table - mixing | women | youth
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5702
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