In an elegant sitting room, an older man bows before a beatiful young woman who holds a squirrel in her hand as a handsome young man looks on the scene from the door. A painting of Spring hangs on the wall behind her; a painting of Winter hangs on th...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Muffs, Servants, Pets, Squirrels, and Floor coverings
"A crowded interior. An old maid, grotesquely lean, spectacled, and hideous, sits in an arm-chair beside her fire (left) on which a concoction in a saucepan boils over, surrounded by fierce flames. This she stirs with a spoon but turns to the right to...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women
"A crowded interior. An old maid, grotesquely lean, spectacled, and hideous, sits in an arm-chair beside her fire (left) on which a concoction in a saucepan boils over, surrounded by fierce flames. This she stirs with a spoon but turns to the right to...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, Pets, and Single women
A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. As well as being cluttered with potions, the room contains an assortment of squabbling pets; on the wall hangs a painting depicting the attempted seduction of ...
Description:
Title etched below image, as the heading to the recipe in verse.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Panaceas, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 30 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog which a black liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both figures are shown three-quarter length
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand.
"Six country people surround a flaming bowl on a small round table. A man jocosely holds a terrified cat over the bowl to force it to pull out a raisin. A man wearing a shirt or surplice stands with both arms held up, from one hand dangles a (?) burnt...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 12th 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Games, Beverages, Bowls (Tableware), Tables, Pets, Cats, and Dogs
