Directions to footmen [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Directions to footmen [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Directions to footman
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [not before 10 November 1807]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman at the head of the table (right) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing an early eighteenth-century wig. A cockatoo screams from a cage (left). A dog sits behind the old woman's chair, a cat puts its fore-paws on the table to lap the spilt soup. Below the title: 'Take off the largest dishes, and set them on with one hand, to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies, that if the dish happens to slip, the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes. . . . When you carry up a dish of meat, dip your fingers in the sauce, or lick it with your tongue, to try whether it be good, and fit for your masters table - .' [Two quotations from Swift's 'Directions to Servants'.]"--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
The word 'footmen' in the title was corrected from 'footman' by the etcher. 'A' was struck through and the letter 'E' was inserted above deletion.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue, with date burnished from plate. For the original issue with date "10th Novr. 1807" at end of imprint, see no. 10918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling cold."
Plate numbered '273' in upper right corner.
Watermark: Charles Wise. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 35.6 x 24.5 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 807.11.10.02+ Impression 1
- Collection Title
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) Charles Wise - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Dinners and dining
Accidents
Eating & drinking
Servants
Women domestics
Birdcages
Cats
Dogs - Subjects
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Dinners and dining
Accidents
Eating & drinking
Servants
Women domestics
Birdcages
Cats
Dogs
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Charles Wise
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8779182
- Object ID (OID)
- 15814057