Hug Mug Gin

Hug Mug Gin

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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Hug Mug Gin

Signed lower right:
Rowlandson Del., inscribed lower left: Sketch'd at R H... and indistinctly lower centre: The ..... and the ....
Pen and grey ink and watercolour over pencil
27 by 21.1 cm., 10 ½ by 8 ¼ in.

Engraved:
As an etching by Rowlandson, 1815

A similar print after Rowlandson,with a different background, was published by Thomas Tegg in 1813 as `Batchelor's Fare - Bread, Cheese and Kisses' (see Joseph Grego,
Rowlandson the Caricaturist - a Selection of his Works, 1880, vol. II, p.253, ill.). Copies of the 1815 etching are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.