Setting out in life [graphic]

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Title: Setting out in life [graphic]
Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created: [1790?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A gaunt older man sits in an upholstered chair (left) and shown in profile looks upon his well-fed son (facing the viewer). A cat sits at the son's feet. The father says: "It is high time child, thee should't think of setting out in life. Thee art too lively for a farmer, what treade, shoudst like best?" The son replies: "Why father if you have no objection, I should like woundily to be bound prentice to a bishop, for is all pay and little work! Now that would just suit I to a tittle."
Description: Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii, p. 38.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 38 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1790
Etchings England London 1790
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cats
Chairs
Clergy
Fathers
Occupations
Sons
Subjects: Cats
Chairs
Clergy
Fathers
Occupations
Sons
England > 1790
England > London > 1790

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