A city taylor's wife dressing for the Pantheon [graphic]

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Title: A city taylor's wife dressing for the Pantheon [graphic]
Alternative Title: City tailor's wife dressing for the Pantheon
Creator: Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Contributor: Martin, Elias, 1739-1818, artist.
Parker, Henry, 1725-1809, publisher.
Published / Created: [5 February 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 5th Feby. 1772 by Heny. Parker at No. 82 in Cornhill, London
Abstract: A fashionably dressed woman sitting behind a table is taking a necklace out of a box; she has three large black spots on her face. She looks with disdain at her enraged husband in old-fashioned clothes and a nightcap, sitting next to her, his fists clenched and despair on his face. In his lap lies a pair of breeches he is sewing; above on the wall of their meagre abode hangs a small stag's head with antlers
Description: Title engraved below image.
Later state, with plate reworked to include an altered publication line and changes to the design. For an earlier state published by William Humphrey that has an advertisement placard present on the back wall among other differences, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 772.02.05.02+.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Samuel Gedge; January 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.1 x 25 cm, on sheet 37.8 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Mezzotints England London 1772
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Adultery
Couples
Jewelry boxes
Scissors & shears
Sewing equipment & supplies
Sexually transmitted diseases
Tailors
Subjects: Adultery
Couples
Jewelry boxes
Scissors & shears
Sewing equipment & supplies
Sexually transmitted diseases
Tailors
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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