A smokey house and a scolding wife [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[May 1821]eng"An elderly man and wife sit close together at a meagrely spread dinner-table. With hands folded, he bends his head in melancholy resentment, while his wife hectors, with right fist clenched, the left forefinger raised in admonition. He wears neat old-fashioned dress, she is a bare-bosomed trollope. On the table are only a tankard (by the woman), a fragment of loaf, one chop with knife and fork. Dark smoke is indicated as a background."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides, and publisher's name and address mostly erased from sheet. Complete imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no. 1935,0522.10.223.b.Name and address written in ink at end of imprint statement, in place of the text erased from sheet: A. [...?], 1 York Pla[...?].Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.