"An elderly man and wife sit close together at a meagrely spread dinner-table. With hands folded, he bends his head in melancholy resentment, while his wife hectors, with right fist clenched, the left forefinger raised in admonition. He wears neat old-fashioned dress, she is a bare-bosomed trollope. On the table are only a tankard (by the woman), a fragment of loaf, one chop with knife and fork. Dark smoke is indicated as a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Smoky house and a scolding wife
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides, and publisher's name and address mostly erased from sheet. Complete imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no. 1935,0522.10.223.b., Name and address written in ink at end of imprint statement, in place of the text erased from sheet: A. [...?], 1 York Pla[...?]., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1821 by S.[?] Keys, 22 Mary le bone St., Portland Chapel
Title from text in center of image., Reissue, with altered publication date, of a plate first published in 1809. See British Museum catalogue., Above title are the phrases "Ever changing," "Ever new," and "Vive la bagatelle.", Plate numbered "100" in upper right corner., Reissue of the title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
