The discord of matrimony [art original]

Description

Title: The discord of matrimony [art original]
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1796]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A couple, the lady seated with her back to her husband, turns with knit-brow to look over her shoulder at her husband who looks at her with anger or disgust and distain
Description: Title written in pencil beneath image.
Signed by the artist in lower right.
Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons.
Numbered "407" in ink in lower left.
For a related mezzotint, published by Bowles & Carver, see no. 8921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
Provenance: From the collection of Jeffrey Rose; sold Sotheby's, London, 23 February 1978. Later owned by David Padbury. Purchased by The Lewis Walpole Library from Jarndyce, May 2024.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 17 x 13 cm, mounted to sheet 19 x 15 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English