The detection [graphic]

Description

Title: The detection [graphic]
Creator: Wigstead, Henry, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [15 June 1795] and [printed 1818]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. June 15, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Abstract: "A drawing room with a young woman seated at a piano at right, gazing seriously into the eyes of her tutor, who has his arm around the back of her chair; an older couple seated at the fireplace at left, the man dozing with his dog at his feet, the grotesque old woman, startled, just noticing the lovers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Fortepianos -- Fireplace screens -- Music sheets -- Allusion to adultery -- Windows.
Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1818.
Number "5" in publication year changed to a "6" in contemporary hand.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v. vi.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Watermarks (Paper) Ruse & Turners 1818
Material: etching with aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Courtship
Dogs
Fireplaces
Subjects: Couples
Courtship
Dogs
Fireplaces
England > 1795
England > London > 1795
Ruse & Turners > 1818

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