Quarter day, or, Clearing the premisses without consulting your landlord [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[not before 30 January 1814]eng"Household goods are being piled into an open cart, which stands beside a corner house, the door being partly visible on the extreme right. The cart is already stacked high with mattresses, tables, &c. A burly muscular man stands inside it, taking things from a fat and slatternly but comely woman (right). She hands up a child's commode and is laden with bellows, warming-pan, chamber-pots, gridiron, &c. A pretty girl (left) brings a trap containing a mouse and a cage containing a bird. A pretty young woman is in the doorway. In the foreground two burly children play with a monstrous cat, surrounded by goods ready for transport. These are cooking utensils, mop and pail, flat-irons, &c."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Later state; former plate number "318" has been replaced with a new number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate.Publisher from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Jany. 30th, 1814. Cf. No. 12399 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.Plate numbered "259" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 274.1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 37.5 x 25.8 cm.Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.