"The room of an impecunious family. The father, probably an actor, writer, or artist, sits on a three-legged stool, with a little girl on each knee, one flourishes a whip and tugs at his shirt frill, the other pulls his pigtail. A younger child rides astride his leg, and a little boy tugs at his coat-tail; both flourish whips. An infant in a wicker cradle screams. The man turns up his eyes in melancholy resignation. His stockings are ungartered, and his dress suffers from the too-active children. Behind is an open fire, with a kettle beside it. The mother, neatly dressed, cooks, holding a frying-pan on a grid attached to the grate. A small round table (right) is laid for a scanty meal. From a line across the room hangs neatly folded washing. The chimneypiece is covered with medicine-bottles, &c, among which is a bust of a man. Above is an unframed picture of Diogenes in his tub. On the wall are also a small (broken) mirror, and a print of a man bent under a towering pile of sacks. On the boarded floor is an open book: a picture of a sow with many sucking-pigs faces: All the pretty little ones and their Dam Oh! Oh! Oh."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplify subject., and Watermark: J Whatman 1821.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Later state with publication date altered from "May" to "June" 1821. For earlier state cf. no. 14299 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Title etched below image., Restrike., Publication date of restrike from watermark., Original publication date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1700., Imprint erased from this impression., Five columns of verse below title: By Cupid's wicker snare portray'd above, we represent that fatal end of love ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Matrimony -- Cupid's snare -- Mythology: Cupid -- Jesters -- Female costume, 1700? -- Male costume, 1700?., and Watermark: J Whatman 1821.
Three horizontal strips in between borders. First image on top left: two men greet each other bowing excessively. The one on the left says: Sir, I am proud to see you. The other replies: Sir, you do me honor
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; captions etched above each image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of publication information., Publication date and attributionsd to Rowlandson and Woodward from mss. notes on verso of print., Possibly a restrike from one of 24 plates of Borders for rooms drawn by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson, and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800. See British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1821.
