"A domestic scene; a grotesque elderly woman sits at her toilette, pointing to a mirror on which a mobcap hangs, and looking upwards as a wig decorated with ribbons and a feather is about to be placed on her head by a young maid standing at right, who...
Alternative Title:
My aunt and my uncle and Couple of antiques
Description:
Title etched below image.
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Pubd. Novr. 20, 1807, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dogs, Mirrors, Older people, Servants, Spouses, and Wigs
An angry, bare-breasted young woman in a night dress and cap enters the door of a sitting room from a bedroom (seen through the open door on the right). She scowls at the white-haired man relaxed in an armchair in front of a fire; he smokes a pipe and...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. May 25, 1806, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Two designs on one plate. Design on top: A fat woman sits in a nightgown on the edge of a curtained bed while her husband (right) yawns in an armchair, glass and decanter beside him. He has dropped a (broken) pipe and his book: 'Memoirs of an Amorous...
Alternative Title:
Abroad and at home
Description:
Two distinct designs on one plate each titled separately.
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Pubd. Feb. 28, 1807, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
Two designs on one plate. Design on top: A fat woman sits in a nightgown on the edge of a curtained bed while her husband (right) yawns in an armchair, glass and decanter beside him. He has dropped a (broken) pipe and his book: 'Memoirs of an Amorous...
Alternative Title:
Abroad and at home
Description:
Two distinct designs on one plate each titled separately.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feb. 28, 1807, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
"Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a s...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
A view of the interior of a busy French barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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Publish'd Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
France. Armée
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, Soldiers, Women, and Yawning
"A bogus wizard stands raising his wand while a grotesque figure, in answer, snorting fire, emerges in clouds of smoke from a rectangular aperture in the floor (left), dagger in one hand, cup of 'poison' in the other. The dupe, an ugly man in old-fash...
Alternative Title:
Raising the devil
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12, 1800, by R. Ackerman, No. 101 Strand
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title: 'Getting up early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, table, sho...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 9th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Birdcages, Cats, Domestic life, Housework, Interiors, Sweeping & dusting, and Women domestics
"Two designs on one plate. Top (BMSat 6868): A young woman lies under a tree asleep, partly supported by a small beer barrel; a rake is beside her. Next her a young man sits up yawning and stretching. A dog sits beside them; in the distance are sheep....
Alternative Title:
Nap in town
Description:
Title etched below images. Each image signed and dated in image and each with an imprint statement below.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho
"Two designs on one plate. Top (British Museum Satires No. 6868): A young woman lies under a tree asleep, partly supported by a small beer barrel; a rake is beside her. Next her a young man sits up yawning and stretching. A dog sits beside them; in th...
Alternative Title:
Nap in the country ; Nap in town
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho
