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- Creator:
- Thew, Robert, 1758-1802, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 September 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.09.29.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A wealthy middle class family gathered in a room, the father standing in the centre, leaning on the back of a chair which his youngest child stands upon, embracing him, a son standing beside pointing to an open book and the mother sitting at left, gazing to right while another daughter beside plays with a kitten, a bird in a cage on table beside; at right an older son looks out anxiously at the ships on river beyond, his coat over his arm.."--British Museum online catalogue and The paintings on the back wall of the room and the statue above the doorway amplify the moral subject of the print
- Description:
- Title from text in lower margin, centered., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Dedication engraved below image, on either side of title: To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III, & Queen Charlotte, this print is most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful and loyal subject, Jno. Boydell.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Sept. 29, 1799, by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Families, Windows, Paintings, and Pets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Conjugal affection from the original picture presented to the city by Aldn. Boydell / [graphic]
