"Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a small round table, holding up a large watch, the hands showing that it is 9.40, and yawning deeply. On the table are a decanter containing a tiny 'blue devil', cf. British Museum Satires No. 8745, and a guttering candle stuck in a potato at which a rat is nibbling. Another rat runs up the table leg. The other man (right), with closed eyes, and hands on knees, sits on a stool, registering melancholy resignation. One pig (left) devours a 'Racing Calendar' which floats on the water. A fire of sticks burns smokily on a wide hearth; a large pot is overturning, the contents gushing over. Above the chimney-piece hangs a picture in a broken frame of a country house. There is one small casement window, half boarded up, the other half partly stuffed up with a pair of breeches. A ham and a hare hang from hooks in the ceiling. High up on the wall is a small shelf on which is broken china; a cat stands on it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 24.4 x 34 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Mounted on page 24.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
An album with views of French buildings and monuments mostly in and around Paris, from several numbered series including: a series of small engravings of French tradesmen (cries); a hand-colored etching of a Dance of death signed "Turner f. 1799" (formerly misidentified as a watercolor drawing and cataloged under the title "Dancing skeletons"); an engraving of a roller coaster entitled "Promenades aeriennes: Jardin Baujon" (after Louis Garneray); three lithographs of unidentified landscapes and one of a tree-house; one Rowlandson satire "Comforts of an Irish fishing lodge"; and an etching entitled "View from the end window of the drawing room at Heywood in the Queen's Coy. Ireland, the seat of Frederick Trench Esqre." signed "F.W.T. 1818" with mss. inscription from F.W. Trench to Lady Howe and Also mounted in the album are a series in images for French buildings from a game board: Jeu des monumens français de la ville de Paris. Paris : J. Langlumé éditeur, rue du Foin St. Jacques 11, [1815]. Also cataloged separately
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France), Ireland, and France.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Dance of death, Roller coasters, and Occupations
