The painter's family [graphic]

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Description

Title
The painter's family [graphic]
Creator
Dixon, B., Jr. , printmaker
Published / Created
[1740]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
A family seated around a table, with a couple on one side, a child in the middle, and the third woman drinking from a large bowl. On the table is a lit candels, drinking glasses, paper and pipes. On the walls hang pictures.
Title etched below image.
Dated by curator.
Verse etched below image in two columns on either side of title, three lines each: See here the various scenes of human life, A debauched husband and a drunken wife, One stupid, faithless, haughty when reprov'd, Loved by her husband, her gallant she lov'd, The husband tho' fortune frown tho' wife desert, Finds a sprightly dame that reviv's his heart.
Sheet trimmed around image into plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
On page 71 in volume 1.
Provenance
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent
1 print : sheet 23.3 x 22 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1740
Etchings England London 1740
Material
etching ;
Subject (Topic)
Artists
Couples
Families
Interiors
Intoxication
Subjects
Artists
Couples
Families
Interiors
Intoxication
England > 1740
England > London > 1740
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12627007
Object ID (OID)
16193933

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