The coblers cure for a scolding wife [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1813?]eng"The cobbler leans savagely over his wife who is tied to a chair, and with her wrists bound. With his awl between his teeth he pulls at the thread with which he is stitching up her mouth. She is an elderly virago with pendent breasts, who glares up at him, crisping her fingers; their faces are close together. A buxom young woman leans delightedly over the pair, holding up a candle."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Later reissue; plate number has been added and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate.Originally issued without plate number, with the word "wife" in title misspelled "wiff," and with the imprint "London, Pub. Aug. 4, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 809.08.04.01+.For an earlier reissue with the title corrected, the plate number added, and the year of publication in imprint crossed out, see no. 12148 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.Date of publication from Grego; a questionable date of 1813 is also assigned in the British Museum catalogue for the earlier reissue.Plate numbered "294" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.Leaf 98 in volume 4.