An advertisement for a husband! [art original]
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Description
- Title
- An advertisement for a husband! [art original]
- Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created
- [1803]
- Publication Place
- London
- Abstract
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A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur, how pretty she looks, she pe [sic] a nice wench", "Leave a Scotch laddie alone for carrying off the sillar", and "From my conscience, she looks like a Venus of medicine!" respectively. The footman leans forward to shout into the elderly woman's ear trumpet, "Please your ladyship all these gentlemen be[?] come about an advartisement [sic] for a husband and to lose no time they have brought the Parson with them; please your Virginship what am I to say to em?" The elderly woman responds, "Say to them, why the men are mad, if I was so inclined do they think I would marry six husbands at once!!" A hissing cat followed by a litter of kittens stand beside the woman's chair
- Description
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Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image.
Signed by the artist.
Publication line inscribed in ink below image for possible later print: London, Pubd. Jany. 1, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street. - Provenance
- From Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. x.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : image 30.1 x 44 cm, on sheet 33 x 45 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Humorous pictures
Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Watercolors British 19th century - Material
- watercolor with ink ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Bachelors
Cats
Hearing aids
Marriage proposals
Older people
Single women - Subjects
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Bachelors
Cats
Hearing aids
Marriage proposals
Older people
Single women
England > 1803
British > 19th century
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- G.M. Woodward, An Advertisement for a Husband! The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 10208595
- Object ID (OID)
- 10977947