"Plate 1: One of a set, BMSats 10324-9, all with the same imprint. ['Corner of Sackville St' omitted in BMSats 10326, 10327, 10329.] A fat virago leans across the table, seizing the neck-cloth of her still fatter husband and shrieking in his face. The 'cit' gapes in apoplectic astonishment, still holding knife and fork on which food is speared; the edge of the table-cloth is tucked down his neck. His wig falls off. On the table is a bird; bread-basket and (broken) pitcher lie on the floor, salad-bowl and large cruet are falling. A dog barks. A terrified footman seizes his mistress's shoulders; his are grasped by a rough-looking maidservant. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue., One of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Two columns of verse below design: Poor Griskins wife, dramatic mad no doubt, of Zaras woes, incessantly would spout..., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
