"Two elderly men ('cits') stand submissively, while young wives hold large antlers to their foreheads. One (left) flourishes her husband's wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., One line of text below title: "Very unhappy but it can't be help't." We were rather too old, brother, before we married. -vide the Progress of an Old Bachelor., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '233' in lower right of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Cuckolds -- 'Cits' -- Female dress, 1799 -- Male dress, 1799 -- Architectural details: panelled walls.
Publisher:
Published 12th July 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Drawing for a Gothic panel in ink and wash with additions in pencil and with a note in ink in the upper right in Bentley's hand, "The start of the centre to be taken as on this side, the other is wrong." Harris describes this and a related drawing as "Designs for a Gothic chapel."
Description:
Title devised by curator., Watermark, centered in sheet: Fleur-de-lis., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Drawing for a Gothic panel in pen and ink with wash and with additions in pencil. Harris describes this and a related drawing as "Designs for a Gothic chapel."
Description:
Title devised by curator., Watermark, centered in sheet., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
