"Satire on marriage, illustrating a riotous scene in a country village where a shrewish wife and hen-pecked husband are mocked by their neighbours in procession. The couple ride on one horse, the man facing the tail, preceded by another man on horseback who throws grain from a pannier to the crowd. Further to the right, cuckold's horns in the form of a stag's head, a ram's head and a cow's head are held aloft, the latter attached to a woman's shift, and "rough music" is played on pots and pans. In the background, is a river and a similar procession takes place on the far bank.."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text above image., Undated later state, by a different publisher; see No.1703 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: First pans and kettles of all keys, from trebles, down to double bass ..., Temporary local subject terms: Fairs: "Horn Fair", Charlton, Kent -- Banners: Horns and women's undergarments used as banners on stick -- Kitchen utensils: pots as noisemakers -- Ladles -- Horns: stag's head and antlers on stick -- Ram's horns on stick -- Cow's horns on stick -- Grain -- Distaffs -- Processions: Skimmington -- Buildings: cottages -- Rowboats -- Alehouses -- Signs with horns -- Tubs on poles -- Matrimony -- Countrymen -- Swans -- Shrews -- Literature: verse purported to be from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., Watermark and countermark., "Hudibras" at the end of verse erased from this impression., and Mounted to 36 x 51 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Spouses, Marriage, Dwellings, Dogs, and Horses
"A cobbler flourishes a strap, while a little woman in Turkish trousers and jewelled turban runs away behind him. On the left is his shed and a bench with tools. Behind is a large quasi-oriental building, with minaret and dome. The verses relate how the cobbler thrashed his very small wife who ran away between his legs 'for ever'. They end:'"Twou'd break my heart, to lose my awl, To lose my wife's a trifle.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cobbler's wife
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '447' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., and Twenty four lines of text between three numbered song verses above imprint: Last week I took a wife; and when I first did woo her...
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 12, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Thomas Coke of Norfolk leads his bride through a pastoral landscape; he prances gaily along hat in hand, turning to look at her, and singing, Oh the Days when I was Young; in his left hand is a book: Coke upon Littleton [see British Museum Satires No. 14423]. She takes his left arm, holding back the gauze veil that floats from a bonnet trimmed with flowers and towering feathers. Her tight-waisted pelisse has a deep crimson border. She is gravely demure, but sings: Of all the Gay Lads that Dance on the Green, Old Tommys the Lad for Me. He looks younger than 67, she older than 18. Behind them (right) is a country church, before them a signpost pointing To the Breeding Park and To the Nursery. An old ram branded C approaches a sheep; a French greyhound prances towards a decrepit and shaggy dog."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Collector's stamp in red on verso: half-length raised figure of fox with initials MW below., and Watermark: A. Stace 1801.
Publisher:
Pub. March 26th, 1822, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Name):
Coke, Thomas William, Earl of Leicester, 1752-1842 and Keppel, Anna Amelia, Countess of Leicester, 1803-1844
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Walking, Dogs, Sheep, and Traffic signs & signals
Title below image., Place of publication supplied by curator., Below title: Presented with No.5 of the Star or Drawing Room Album, Augst. 17th, 1839., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Home nursing, Care of the sick, Spouses, Sick persons, and Medicines
An angry husband with carving knife and fork in hand glowers at the leg of mutton on the dinner table before him, while his wife and two young men look on with anxious expressions. He says: "Its rad! not fit to eat! --these are the blessed effects of boiling mutton in a clath!" A dog at the wife's feet looks on. On the wall hangs the framed picture with the two allegorical figures of Peace and Concord
Alternative Title:
Dinner spoiled
Description:
Title from item., Series title and number etched above image., and Publication date from British museum catalogue and Grego.
"No.1: A small dinner-table, largely covered by a pale leg of mutton behind which sits the irate husband, carving-knife and fork in hand. His wife opposite (right) glares at him, two youths look anxious. He says: "Its rod! not fit to eat! - these are the blessed effects of boiling Mutton in a clath!!" A dog watches him. On the wall (right) is a framed picture of 'Peace and Concord', two allegorical figures."--British museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dinner spoiled
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Earlier state, with date in imprint, of no. 9622 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Earlier state of print described in: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 14.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, N. 101 Strand
A couple, the lady seated with her back to her husband, turns with knit-brow to look over her shoulder at her husband who looks at her with anger or disgust and distain
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath image., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "407" in ink in lower left., and For a related mezzotint, published by Bowles & Carver, see no. 8921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
Plate 29. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 29. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Riches a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat. Under the sleeve of the coat on the floor is an issue of "Grubstreet Journall." She looks to the door on the left where she is confronted by a milkmaid who holds a lengthy tally; the daisies in her bonnet suggest Michaelmas day when bills are due; she also is shown with a yoke across her back. Just inside the doorway a dog snatches the single pork chop from a plate on a chair; the cupboard above the door stands open to show empty shelves. Behind the poet, a baby lies in a bed crying. Above the poet's head is a print 'A View of the Gold Mines of Peru." Above the mantel is a "dare for larks" -- a circular mirror surrounded by eight smaller circular mirrors
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., Originally published in 1736 as: The Distressed Poet., "Price 3 shillings"--Following statement of responsibility., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.6 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 29 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Plate 29. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 29. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Riches a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat. Under the sleeve of the coat on the floor is an issue of "Grubstreet Journall." She looks to the door on the left where she is confronted by a milkmaid who holds a lengthy tally; the daisies in her bonnet suggest Michaelmas day when bills are due; she also is shown with a yoke across her back. Just inside the doorway a dog snatches the single pork chop from a plate on a chair; the cupboard above the door stands open to show empty shelves. Behind the poet, a baby lies in a bed crying. Above the poet's head is a print 'A View of the Gold Mines of Peru." Above the mantel is a "dare for larks" -- a circular mirror surrounded by eight smaller circular mirrors
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., Originally published in 1736 as: The Distressed Poet., and "Price 3 shillings"--Following statement of responsibility.
