Rumination [graphic].

Description

Title: Rumination [graphic].
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: 1825.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Abstract: A woman sits with her hand to her head with a rueful look on her face, a tea setting on the table before her. Behind her to the left, her husband sits slumped in his chair, eyes closed
Description: Title etched below image.
Four lines of verse below title: "An evening téte a téte you next shall see," "No friendly chat succeeds departed Tea," Blue burn the Candles & the Nymph looks blue," "And ruminsation serves them but to rue."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xix.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.4 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1825
Aquatints England London 1825
Etchings England London 1825
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Boredom
Couples
Tea services
Subjects: Boredom
Couples
Tea services
England > 1825
England > London > 1825

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