Two classical figures stand on either side of a view of the interior of a library with its shelves filled with books and an arm chair on the right. Putti are shown in the foreground and in the image in various stages of engagement with books. In the banner above the dome of the alcove in the library reads 'Utile dulci'.
Description:
Title from caption in image., Place and date of creation inscribed below banner., and For further information, consult library staff.
In the center of the image a woman, dressed in a short shift, angrily pulls a bottle from the hand of a drunken man. The man sits at an oval drop-leaf table with his right fist raised and a cigar hanging from his mouth as smoke billows around his head. He holds onto a bottle with his left hand, a glass and pile of cigars at his elbow. The woman standing over the table on the left angrily points with her left hand to a clock on the wall which shows the time as 5:05. In the background on the left, a dark-faced, cloaked figure stands before the curtained doorway on the left; the double doors on the right are shut. Also on the table is a lit candle in a glass globe; an overturned pitcher pours onto the floor in the foreground
Description:
Title engraved below image., Place of publication precedes statement of responsibility, below image on the left., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to on sheet 31 x 40 cm.
