Hiring a servant [graphic].

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Description

Title
Hiring a servant [graphic].
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[1811]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"An obese 'cit' and his wife sit side by side at a small round breakfast-table, facing a tall handsome young woman who stands before them. The wife, registering surprise, asks: "What Situation in my Family woud you wish to undertake Young Woman." She answers demurely: "Ma'am I should like to be under Your Man Cook by Way of Improvement." The 'cit', excited and angry, exclaims: "What's that you say I'll be D--nd If you shall be under my Man Cook or any other man in my house." The fat cook, outside the open door (right), laughs uproariously. A large fierce cat advances towards the girl. On the table are tea-things, a large urn, and boiled eggs."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Beginning of imprint, including date, has been removed from plate; date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego.
Plate numbered "124" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
"Price one shilling cold."
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 63 in volume 2.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 25 x 36 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
Collection Title
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1811
England > London > 1811
1817
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12857074
Object ID (OID)
16192486

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