The dinner spoil'd! [graphic]

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Title: The dinner spoil'd! [graphic]
Alternative Title: Dinner spoiled
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by R. Akerman, N. 101 Strand
Abstract: An angry husband with carving knife and fork in hand glowers at the leg of mutton on the dinner table before him, while his wife and two young men look on with anxious expressions. He says: "Its rad! not fit to eat! --these are the blessed effects of boiling mutton in a clath!" A dog at the wife's feet looks on. On the wall hangs the framed picture with the two allegorical figures of Peace and Concord
Description: Title from item.
Series title and number etched above image.
Publication date from British museum catalogue and Grego.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.74 x 19.4 cm, on sheet 27 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Spouses
Marriage
Subjects: Spouses > Caricatures and cartoons
Marriage
England > 1799
England > London > 1800

Access: Public
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