A poor man loaded with mischief, or, Matrimony [graphic]

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Description

Title
A poor man loaded with mischief, or, Matrimony [graphic]
Alternative Title
Matrimony
Contributor
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Smith, J. active approximately 1750-1792, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before1762]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & John Smith in Cheapside
Abstract

A large stout man, with an expression of resignation on his face, walking between village houses, staggers under the weight of a drunken woman reposing on his back, a glass marked 'gin' in her raised right hand, her bosom exposed. On her lap sits a monkey holding on to the man's wig and thus pulling it off his head. A magpie is sitting on monkey's shoulders. Around the man's neck is a heavy chain with a huge padlock inscribed 'wedlock' hanging in the center. Behind the group, from a pigsty attached to the house on the left and inscribed, 'She is as drunk as David's sow' a pig sticks out its head. From the roof of the same house is suspended a sighboard showing two cats and decorated at top with bull's horns. Above the horns is an inscription, 'The Christian mans arms, or, the cuckolds fortune.'

Description
Title from item.
Publication date inferred from John Smith's address at Cheapside.
Two columns of verse below image: A monkey, a magpuye & wife, is the true emblem of strife ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss ; May 1954 ;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 35.1 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 40 x 29 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
760.00.00.89+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1760
Etchings England London 1760
Material
etching with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Intoxication
Marriage
Pets
Signs (Notices)
Subjects
Intoxication
Marriage
Pets
Signs (Notices)
England > 1760
England > London > 1760

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8554209
Object ID (OID)
10714758

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