"Probably a copy of a French print. An elderly and ugly couple in old-fashioned dress, stand close together, but turning aside with expressions of angry resentment. There is a companion plate, 'Le Raccamodement Making up'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Falling out
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., Watermark: Smith & Allnutt 1816., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: Price 1.
"An elderly and ugly couple in old-fashioned dress turned towards each other and embracing, though standing apart, the woman tall and leaning down to the short, portly man, whose wig slips from his head; probably a copy of a French print."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Racorrodement and Raccordement
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from companion print "La brouille. Falling out", which was published 24 December 1819 by S.W. Fores. Cf. No. 13483 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Smith & Allnutt 1816., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: Price [damaged portion].
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Smith & Allnutt 1816., and Printseller's stamp: Price 1.
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Smith & Allnutt 1816., and Printseller's stamp.
"Husband and wife dressing in a bedroom, the tent-shaped bed-curtains forming a background. The woman is thin and has a mole on her face, the man broad, but their deficiencies are similar. She stands (left), about to raise her shift and adjust false posteriors. A false bust, false teeth, and wig, simulating natural curls, are on the table behind her, on which are also the man's wig and an eye in a tumbler of water. Both are bald. He sits (right) in shirt and breeches, about to put on a pair of stockings with false calves of fleece. Both register sour dissatisfaction with themselves and each other."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Persons in wedlock should be properly matched
Description:
Titles from text in French and English below image., Later state, with altered publication line, of no. 13455 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Print stamped with price: Price 1s., On sheet with watermark: Smith & Allnut 1818., and ounted to: 44.1 x 37.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 20, 1820 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bedrooms, Baldness, Marriage, Wigs, Dentures, and Artificial eyes
