"In an ornate foreshortened bed which is the centre of the design, propped against a frilled pillow, is a lady, dismayed at the sight of a grotesque infant which a nurse (right) holds out to her. Her husband (left) is a grotesque dandy, wearing a small top-hat on bunched-out hair, and with a heavy black moustache, and whiskers which meet, projecting from the chin. He inspects the child, looking through an eye-glass in the handle of a riding-switch. The infant is a little replica, heavily bearded, of its father, and holds up a similar switch; it wears a trimmed chemise with spurred boots. The father: Is it possible that I can be the Author of such an Eccentric production. The mother: Oh the little Brute! Who can doubt that when they see the horrid Likeness. The nurse: Brute indeed! why its a perfect angel And the very model of his Pa! Oh who can help Longing to Kiss him. A fashionable interior is indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Two of the figures identified by ms. notes in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Published by Harrisson Isaccs [sic], Charles St., Soho Square
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Eyeglasses, Fireplaces, Governesses, Infants, Monocles, and Servants
Charles Fox, dressed as a nurse, stands in front of a brick house, indicating an empty cradle with a label, "Reynard state cradle wrocker." Lord North, also in nurse's clothes, leans out the window above the entrance holding out a dirty diaper. On the wall to his left is pasted advertisement for employment the "nurses" seek, referring both the the defeat of Fox-North Coalition and Fox's close association with the Prince of Wales
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Place of publication from address., and Mounted to 41 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by H. Humphrey, March 11, 1784, No. 50 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Governesses, Cradles, Houses, and Clothing & dress
After 'The Staymaker' by Hogarth: A man standing on the left, fitting a bodice for a young woman who stands holding the stays together and looking back over her shoulder at a mirror held by a maid who stands behind her; on the right, the husband kiss his small child who is held by the nurse who kisses his bare bottom. Another child pours wine into a tricorne hat. A young man (center) walks toward the staymaker and the boy's mother(?); behind him is the hearth
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 31 x 37.5 cm., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Wretched stuff., and On page 214 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Children, Families, Governesses, Interiors, Kissing, Servants, and Tailoring
After 'The Staymaker' by Hogarth: A man standing on the left, fitting a bodice for a young woman who stands holding the stays together and looking back over her shoulder at a mirror held by a maid who stands behind her; on the right, the husband kiss his small child who is held by the nurse who kisses his bare bottom. Another child pours wine into a tricorne hat. A young man (center) walks toward the staymaker and the boy's mother(?); behind him is the hearth
Description:
Title etched below image., Later impression, worn and with year in date altered in ink to '1772'., and 1 print ; plate mark 31.1 x 38.0 cm, on sheet 33.0 x 41.1 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Children, Families, Governesses, Interiors, Kissing, Servants, and Tailoring
After 'The Staymaker' by Hogarth: A man standing on the left, fitting a bodice for a young woman who stands holding the stays together and looking back over her shoulder at a mirror held by a maid who stands behind her; on the right, the husband kiss his small child who is held by the nurse who kisses his bare bottom. Another child pours wine into a tricorne hat. A young man (center) walks toward the staymaker and the boy's mother(?); behind him is the hearth
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Children, Families, Governesses, Interiors, Kissing, Servants, and Tailoring
"A pretty and elegant young woman kneels on a bed supporting her elbows on the pillow. A woman stands beside her raising the girl's skirt in order to birch her, but finds her posterior covered by a life-sized mask which is a close portrait of herself. She says: "Oh ma foi! dot is mine own Head in t'oder place.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Governess outwitted
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., A close copy in reverse of print published by Holland in 1799: The governess delineated, or, A pretty face spoiled. Note from Andrew Edmunds April 2019., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on brown paper backing to 31 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1817 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Governesses, Child discipline, Beds, Masks, and Young adults
