The honey moon [graphic].

Description

Title: The honey moon [graphic].
Alternative Title: Honeymoon
Creator: P., J., printmaker
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Smith, Charles Loraine, 1751-1835, artist.
Published / Created: March 20, 1790.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Abstract: A thin man with a very large nose and lips embraces his new, very large wife whose features are equally exaggerated. They stand at the edge of a bed, he almost falling on her lap. A cat stands on a bracket shelf pulling at the man's pigtail queue. On the wall a picture amplifies the subject
Description: Title from caption below image.
Companion print: Six weeks after the marriage.
Printmaker from companion print.
Artist from copy at the Library of Congress.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 28.4 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 32 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1790
Etchings England London 1790
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Beds
Bedrooms
Cats
Interiors
Marriage
Spouses
Wigs
Subjects: Beds
Bedrooms
Cats
Interiors
Marriage
Spouses
Wigs
England > 1790
England > London > 1790

Access: Public
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