"Scene in a lawyer's office with writing-desk, books, &c. An old man, flinching from a grotesque hairy Devil, who beckons him to Hell, is supported by a pretty young woman. On the wall are a print: 'Pilgrims Progress', a tiny figure surrounded by demons and flames; a notice inscribed 'Stamps'; and a pictorial '[Alm]anack'. On the chimney-piece a figure holds a (tilted) pair of scales and a candle gutters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: Old Flam was a lawyer so grim, he married his maid, people say ..., Plate numbered '509' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: John Hall 1805.
Publisher:
Published 24 Augt. 1809 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[October 1807]
Call Number:
807.10.00.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she sits in front of a fire. The candle stick has fallen from the table and lies unobserved smoking on the floor at her feet, the snuffer also on the floor beside a cat who grabs the food from a plate that has also fallen to the floor. The table by the nurse's elbow holds medicine bottles as well as dishware. More medicine bottles are on the mantel and at her feet. A pot warms over the fire
Alternative Title:
While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
Description:
Title etched below image., Five lines of text below title: While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse, who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort, leaves your door wide open, stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: John Hall 1805
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[October 1807]
Call Number:
Print00209
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she sits in front of a fire. The candle stick has fallen from the table and lies unobserved smoking on the floor at her feet, the snuffer also on the floor beside a cat who grabs the food from a plate that has also fallen to the floor. The table by the nurse's elbow holds medicine bottles as well as dishware. More medicine bottles are on the mantel and at her feet. A pot warms over the fire
Alternative Title:
While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
Description:
Title etched below image., Five lines of text below title: While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse, who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort, leaves your door wide open, stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 32.3 x 23.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
"Guests are grouped in a semicircle in a handsome reception room with an Adam frieze and Doric pilasters. A carpet has a bold circular design in the Aubusson manner. A two-beaked lamp of Roman pattern hangs from the roof. In the foreground a handsome young man bends to kiss a hideous and eager woman. The other guests are engaged in flirting, usually one woman with two men, or two women with one man."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Being obliged to kiss a remarkably plain woman at forfeits ...
Description:
Title etched above image; page number etched above upper right corner of image., Text below image: Being obliged to kiss a remarkably plain woman at forfeits, when you are engaged in the pastime only with the hope of being enabled to salute a lovely young lady, to whom you are particularly attached., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Watermark: John Hall 1805., and Mounted on verso of leaf 36 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1st, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Companion print to his "Young ladies" published also in 1798., Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Furniture: garden bench -- Literature: Chesterfield, Philip Dorner Stanhope, Letters -- Quizzing glasses -- Male dress: spencer., and Watermark: John Hall 1805.
