Fellow sufferers [graphic].

Description

Title: Fellow sufferers [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 July 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 12th July 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "Two elderly men ('cits') stand submissively, while young wives hold large antlers to their foreheads. One (left) flourishes her husband's wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
One line of text below title: "Very unhappy but it can't be help't." We were rather too old, brother, before we married. -vide the Progress of an Old Bachelor.
One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls.
Numbered '233' in lower right of plate.
Temporary local subject terms: Cuckolds -- 'Cits' -- Female dress, 1799 -- Male dress, 1799 -- Architectural details: panelled walls.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching with engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Adultery
Hats
Paneling
Antlers
Subjects: Adultery
Hats
Paneling
Antlers
England > 1799
England > London > 1799

Access: Public
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