"A large stone cottage at right, with stone wall, a figure standing in a doorway looking out over a half-gate at far right, in the road in the foreground, a woman with a pail on her head and a man holding a horse, standing on either side of a group of...
"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...
Alternative Title:
Smoky house and a scolding wife
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1821 by S.[?] Keys, 22 Mary le bone St., Portland Chapel
"A two-storey stone building at left, an inn sign above the door with a picture of a man, half-length with a hat and whip; a maid standing in the doorway and holding out a shallow tray to a horse, a woman standing by another horse nearby; at left, in ...
"View of a substantial house with a stone wall and gate, set at right in parkland; in the foreground, travelling to left, a group carrying sacks and bundles of sticks, including a woman on a horse and several children, others following from the wood a...
"View of the Thames at Richmond, the river at right, a man standing up in a barge in the foreground, other smaller boats in the water beyond; in foreground left on the bank, a man in a smock standing by three horses, an elegant party of three behind, ...
"A young man, [Friedrich Christian Accum (1769-1838) misidentified by Dorothy George as] Humphrey Davy (1778-1829), stands on a platform in a crowded lecture-room, circular in shape, an arc of the wall being shown. He pours liquid from a kettle into a...
"Beach scene, a single-masted ship keeled on its side at centre right, men working on it and unloading barrels into an ox-drawn cart, two other carts heading away in procession behind at left; in another procession in the same direction, a cart with b...
"In the foreground a ragged couple superintend the throwing of sticks at objects poised (or spiked) on pegs. The very fat woman bawls, holding sticks, and extends a greedy palm to a countryman. She wears a hat and cloak, a soldier's tunic, a short tat...
