[A wife scolds her cowering husband as he lies in bed] [graphic]Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker[1785]engA social satire: a "curtain lecture" with a standing woman in night-clothes, one breast expose, berating a man in bed, who draws the bed-covers up to his chin. The bedroom has a large casement window through which is seen moonlight; on the sill are three bottles. Beside the bed is a chair on which his coat hangs; on the floor his unbuckled shoes and a candleLetterpress fragments from a ballad, pasted to the bottom edge of the print: William and Margaret. A Burlesque.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.