Sorrow's dry, or, A cure for the heart ache [graphic].

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Title: Sorrow's dry, or, A cure for the heart ache [graphic].
Alternative Title: Cure for the heart ache
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University).
Published / Created: Sept. 2, 1802.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Design'd and pubd. by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
Abstract: A man cavorting with a young woman, while his recently deceased wife lies in a coffin in the background. Lying next to a treasure chest is an open book which reads: "A smokey house and a scolding wife are the plague of mans life. Oh what pleasure well about when my wife is laid in ground".
Description: Title etched below image.
Four lines of quoted text below title: "Were I not resolv'd against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curs'd with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again. Dryden.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life.
Provenance: Bequest of Clements C. Fry; 1955.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 350 x 247 mm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1802
Material: etching with stipple ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic): Marriage
Death
Coffins
Courtship
Sexual attraction
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Costume
Subjects: Marriage
Death
Coffins
Courtship
Sexual attraction
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Costume > Great Britain > 19th century
Costume
Great Britain
England > 1802
England > London > 1802

Access: Public
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