A large stout man, with an expression of resignation on his face, walking between village houses, staggers under the weight of a drunken woman reposing on his back, a glass marked 'gin' in her raised right hand, her bosom exposed. On her lap sits a monkey holding on to the man's wig and thus pulling it off his head. A magpie is sitting on monkey's shoulders. Around the man's neck is a heavy chain with a huge padlock inscribed 'wedlock' hanging in the center. Behind the group, from a pigsty attached to the house on the left and inscribed, 'She is as drunk as David's sow' a pig sticks out its head. From the roof of the same house is suspended a sighboard showing two cats and decorated at top with bull's horns. Above the horns is an inscription, 'The Christian mans arms, or, the cuckolds fortune.'
Alternative Title:
Matrimony
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from John Smith's address at Cheapside., Two columns of verse below image: A monkey, a magpuye & wife, is the true emblem of strife ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & John Smith in Cheapside
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1760?]
Call Number:
760.00.00.84
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Scene in a country churchyard
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Graveyards -- Buildings: country church -- Crowns: coronet -- Devil -- Death.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Ffiteen lines of text below title describing the proceeding of the court: The court consisting of the following ladies ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Admiral John Byng's trial -- Female dress, ca. 1757., and Mounted to 41 x 29 cm.
Title from item., Printmaker and publisher from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse on either side of title: I'll sing you a ditty and warrant it true, give but attention unto me a while ..., Sixth plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: unidentified countermark (initials MW(?) in a circle).
Title from caption below image., Text following title: Canada is represented in the figure of an Indian paying homage to her royal conqueror ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left and at top., and Written in contemporary hand in the upper right corner: "76"
"A satire on marriage; An old man seated with one leg bandaged and raised on chair in front of him, being attended to by a maid; behind him his young wife is locked in an embrace with her younger lover."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from a unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Disease -- Cantharides -- Curtains -- Birds -- Furniture: upholstered armchair -- Cuckolds.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Adultery, Women domestics, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Crutches, Clocks & watches, Draperies, Birdcages, Parrots, Chairs, and Bells
Title from item., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of text on either side of the title: [...] she terrible law when it fastens it's [sic] paw, on a poor man, it gripes 'till he's undone ..., First plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Other plates in this series do not have series title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below., and Lower left corner torn off resulting in loss of artist's name and some of the text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Title from item., Publisher from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seventh plate in the series The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1., Two columns of verse on either side of title: O. Hob. Zure never was zeen such a rebel, Thou worst of undutiful boys ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: unidentified countermark (initials MW(?) inside a circle).
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse on either side of title: Wife. Oh! My poor boy, O. Hob. His looks are stark wild ..., "Plate IV"--Below title., Fourth plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below.
