A print with two images, the first of which is an amorous young couple, enclosed in a garland of fruits and flowers joined at the bottom by a head of a blindfolded cherub on crossed cornucopias of fruit and coin. The second image can be viewed by turning the print upside-down image and shows an older, quarreling couple enclosed by a garland of entwined leafless branches and supported at the bottom by a horned head of a demon. Six lines of verse describing each scene are engraved on the happy couple's side on two goatskins suspended on either side of the image, and on the unhappy couple's side on a skin of an ass and that of a bear, suspended in similar fashion of the sides. The verse on the happy couple's side begins as follows, "When two fond fools together meet, each look gives joy, each kiss is sweet ..." On the unhappy couple's side the verse begins "The nuptials o'er with angry brow the married pair, both peevish grow ..."
Alternative Title:
Unhappy marriage
Description:
Title and imprint from another impression in an Andrew Edmunds sales catalogue (viewed October 2016)., With Carington Bowles series number '33' in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title and imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., and Window mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles in S. Paul's Churchyard, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Marriage, and Metamorphic pictures
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Caption below title: Oh! Mr. Blacksmith ease our pains -- and tye us fast in wedlocks chains., Plate numbered '277' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Blacksmith's shop -- Trades -- Coachmen -- Gretna Green -- Female costume, 1795.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Forge shops, Blacksmiths, Military uniforms, Coach drivers, and Marriage
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on all sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on: Map of Lurgane in the part of Ballysumacha[?] situate in the county of Sligo. The estate of R. B. Neynoe Esq. / Dublin: Hodges & Smith.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Domestic life, Marriage, Quarreling, and Spouses
A fat elderly citizen, solidly seated, is beset by two pretty young women who offer him fruit. His wife (left) says "You must have some apricots my love." The woman on his right adds, "Just taste these grapes brother in law you never eat finer." He shouts up with angry suspicion to the latter, "Won't eat anything more I tell you. I shall be choaked. Got an eye to the estate I suppose."
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Publication date from watermark., Original publication line: Pubd. Oct. 1, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Later state of no. 9624 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Later state of print described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, p. 15., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1799 -- Food: fruit., and Collector's stamp on verso: SP.
A fat elderly citizen, solidly seated, is beset by two pretty young women who offer him fruit. His wife (left) says "You must have some apricots my love." The woman on his right adds, "Just taste these grapes brother in law you never eat finer." He shouts up with angry suspicion to the latter, "Won't eat anything more I tell you. I shall be choaked. Got an eye to the estate I suppose."
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Earlier state, with dated imprint, of no. 9624 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Earlier state of print described in Grego, v. 2, page 15., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with date 1798 below.
A fat elderly citizen, solidly seated, is beset by two pretty young women who offer him fruit. His wife (left) says "You must have some apricots my love." The woman on his right adds, "Just taste these grapes brother in law you never eat finer." He shouts up with angry suspicion to the latter, "Won't eat anything more I tell you. I shall be choaked. Got an eye to the estate I suppose."
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Earlier state, with dated imprint, of no. 9624 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Earlier state of print described in Grego, v. 2, page 15., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.7 x 19.3 cm, on sheet 24 x 22 cm., and Window mounted on leaf 5 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed around inscriptions., In upper margin: Musée Grotesque, No. 62., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Enema, Medical innovations, Marriage, Irrigation (Medicine)., Spouses, Toilets, Medical equipment & supplies, and Thermometers
"A satire on the folly of marriage where the two parties are of a dissimilar age, and on the sexual opportunism of young military office. An elderly magistrate has fallen asleep sitting beside a table on which are glasses, pipes and two bottles, one labelled “Port” in front of an empty grate. He holds a copy of “Compleat JUSTICE”, showing him to be a Justice of the Peace, and a paper protrudes from his pocket lettered “-him for a Trepass on...”. On a bracket table behind him are “BURNS JUSTICE”, a paper lettered “Stealing a Hare” and another “Mid to Wit...”. On the wall over his head is a stag’s head with antlers alluding to his cuckoldry. On the other side of the fireplace, watching him, his pretty young wife sits beside an army officer who caresses her. The officer’s hat hangs on the wall behind them. On the mantelpiece are two oriental style jars and a figure of Budai,” the smiling Buddha” and over these is a gun suspended upside down.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Alcoholic beverages, Bottles, Chairs, Drinking vessels, Firearms, Fireplaces, Furnishings, Interiors, Marriage, Military officers, British, Parlors, and Tables
