<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>A tailors wedding [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[not before 20 February 1814]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"In a bare room with a raftered roof couples are energetically dancing, holding hands behind their backs, or above their heads. The women, with one exception, are young and handsome, the men ugly and plebeian. A seated fiddler plays with closed eyes (right). Through a doorway partly covered with curtains the bride and bridegroom are seen embracing. On the wall is a placard: 'They dance in a round, cutting capers and ramping. A mercy the ground did not burst with their stamping.The floor is all wett, with leaps and with jumps, while the water and sweat, splish splash in their pumps'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Later state; former plate number "315" has been replaced with a new number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate.</dc:description><dc:description>Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Febry. 20, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12403 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate numbered "269" in upper right corner.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.</dc:description><dc:description>Also issued separately.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed with plate mark on three sides.</dc:description><dc:description>Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 276.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>