Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur, how pretty she looks, she pe [sic] a nice wench", "Leave a Scotch laddie alone for carrying off the sillar", and "From my conscience, she looks like a Venus of medicine!" respectively. The footman leans forward to shout into the elderly woman's ear trumpet, "Please your ladyship all these gentlemen be[?] come about an advartisement [sic] for a husband and to lose no time they have brought the Parson with them; please your Virginship what am I to say to em?" The elderly woman responds, "Say to them, why the men are mad, if I was so inclined do they think I would marry six husbands at once!!" A hissing cat followed by a litter of kittens stand beside the woman's chair
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Publication line inscribed in ink below image for possible later print: London, Pubd. Jany. 1, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street.
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Cats, Hearing aids, Marriage proposals, Older people, and Single women
"Two juxtaposed but unrelated half length figures, a man (right) and woman, with expressions of angry despair, anger prevailing in the woman's face. Beneath the design: 'A disappointed Old Maid & Bachelor, are selected as proper Subjects to represent the Passion of Despair.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 20' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: A disappointed old maid & bachelor are selected as proper subjects to represent the passion of despair., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28 x 21.3 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Feb., 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Despair, Older people, and Single women
"Two juxtaposed but unrelated half length figures, a man (right) and woman, with expressions of angry despair, anger prevailing in the woman's face. Beneath the design: 'A disappointed Old Maid & Bachelor, are selected as proper Subjects to represent the Passion of Despair.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 20' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: A disappointed old maid & bachelor are selected as proper subjects to represent the passion of despair., Watermark: Russell & Co 1799., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: RA.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Feb., 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Despair, Older people, and Single women
"A woman grimaces as a boy holds up a mouse by the tail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 16' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: It is impossible to account for antipithies in this instance. Horror is exited by the appearance of a harmless mouse., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.7 x 21.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on verso of leaf 25 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Mice, Practical jokes, Older people, and Single women
"A woman grimaces as a boy holds up a mouse by the tail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 16' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: It is impossible to account for antipithies in this instance. Horror is exited by the appearance of a harmless mouse., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 28.2 x 21 cm., Publisher's stamp below right corner of design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 26 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Mice, Practical jokes, Older people, and Single women
"A woman grimaces as a boy holds up a mouse by the tail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 16' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: It is impossible to account for antipithies in this instance. Horror is exited by the appearance of a harmless mouse., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Mice, Practical jokes, Older people, and Single women
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text arranged on both sides of title: The lovely stranger stands confest a maid in all her charms., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Single women, Ugliness, Pets, Cats, Dogs, Birds, and Monkeys
"An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog (King Charles spaniel) which a [black] liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both are three-quarter length. Beneath the design: 'This Passion is represented by an Old Maid, who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite Lap-dog.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered 'No. 12' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: This passion is represented by an old maid who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite lap-dog., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.6 x 21.7 cm, on sheet 28.4 x 22.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 21 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Death, Dogs, Older people, Servants, and Single women
"An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog (King Charles spaniel) which a [black] liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both are three-quarter length. Beneath the design: 'This Passion is represented by an Old Maid, who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite Lap-dog.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered 'No. 12' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., and Two lines of text below image: This passion is represented by an old maid who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite lap-dog.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Death, Dogs, Older people, Servants, and Single women
"Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kneels. On a mound (right) a cock stands crowing: 'Cock a doodle doo.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1111.2137., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: C. Wilmot 1815.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Single women, Roses, Putti, Cupids, Monkeys, Dogs, Parrots, and Roosters
