[The honey moon] [graphic].

Description

Title: [The honey moon] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Honeymoon
When the old fool has drank his wine and gone to rest, I will be thine
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 August 1814]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Augt. 1, 1814, by R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Abstract: "A pretty young wife sits beside an aged doting and rich husband, reading to him. He delightedly contemplates his glass, which is being filled by Death, who leans over a screen. The girl's left hand is held by a young officer who leans through the window (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death.
Couplet etched below image: When the old fool has drank his wine / and gone to rest, I will be thine.
Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 106.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life -- Skeleton as Death.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 123 x 204 mm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1814
Etchings England London 1814
Aquatints England London 1814
Material: etching and aquatint ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic): Dance of death
Death (Personification)
Marriage
Skeletons
Courtship
Adultery
Military officers
British
Eating & drinking
Alcoholic beverages
Windows
Interiors
Stringed instruments
Books
Dogs
Fireplaces
Screens
Subjects: Combe, William, 1742-1823 > Illustrations
Dance of death
Death (Personification)
Marriage
Skeletons
Courtship
Adultery
Military officers > British
Eating & drinking
Alcoholic beverages
Windows
Interiors
Stringed instruments
Books
Dogs
Fireplaces
Screens
England > 1814
England > London > 1814

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