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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1807]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C889 no. 7 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his feet lie a set of bellows. On the wall is a framed picture of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
- Description:
- Title from published print based on this drawing., Signed "George Cruikshank" lower right. The British Museum catalogue attributes the design to George's father Isaac in its description of the print engraved after this drawing. Cohn similarly suggests that this design "was probably the work chiefly of Isaac"., A drawing for the illustrated songsheet "Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily", published by Laurie & Whittle in 1807, which tells the tale of a servant Darby Daly who discovers the young Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, forces her seducer to marry her., Backed with Japanese tissue; with the title "The outraged husband" printed on mount., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10938., and Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1144.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfortunate Miss Baily] [art original]