Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram "DM" in lower right portion of design., After a design by Richard Newton, who produced a set of illustrations to A sentimental journey in 1795; see Alexander., Date of publication based on watermark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1818.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from secondary imprint statement., Secondary imprint statement readable despite strikethrough: Published by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, London Augt. 11th, 1819., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1818., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: Price 1.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
"A drawing room with a young woman seated at a piano at right, gazing seriously into the eyes of her tutor, who has his arm around the back of her chair; an older couple seated at the fireplace at left, the man dozing with his dog at his feet, the grotesque old woman, startled, just noticing the lovers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Fortepianos -- Fireplace screens -- Music sheets -- Allusion to adultery -- Windows., Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1818., and Number "5" in publication year changed to a "6" in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
