The pleasures of matrimony [graphic]

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Title: The pleasures of matrimony [graphic]
Creator: Colley, Thomas, 1742-1812, printmaker
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 20 March 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 39 Strand
Abstract: A family of four sit a round table. The father appears to be instructing the little boy standing at his knee with an open book. The mother plays with her toddler daughter who is seated on the table. A battledore and shuttlecock lie on the floor
Description: Title from item.
Publication date inferred from that of the companion print: The pleasures of matrimony.
Publisher identified from address in imprint.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Families -- Children -- Games: battledore and shuttlecock.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii ; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 20 x 27 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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