A scene in a crowded coffee house with a mad dog on a table and terrified customers scrambling for cover. On the wall, a broadside titled: For the brasiles the Cerberuse Capn. Popitner ... bruden ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mad dogs., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; 273 x 381 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides (top, right and left).
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1809, by Thos. Rowlandson, No 1. James Street, Adelphi, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Crowds, Dogs, Fear, Eating & drinking facilities, and Interiors
Title etched below image., Four lines of verse below title: When Hymen joins the lover and the fair, Love spreads his guarding pinions o'er the pair ..., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life.
Publisher:
Pub. March 18, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
"A pretty young wife sits beside an aged doting and rich husband, reading to him. He delightedly contemplates his glass, which is being filled by Death, who leans over a screen. The girl's left hand is held by a young officer who leans through the window (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Honeymoon and When the old fool has drank his wine and gone to rest, I will be thine
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: When the old fool has drank his wine / and gone to rest, I will be thine., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 106., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life -- Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 1, 1814, by R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Dance of death, Death (Personification), Marriage, Skeletons, Courtship, Adultery, Military officers, British, Eating & drinking, Alcoholic beverages, Windows, Interiors, Stringed instruments, Books, Dogs, Fireplaces, and Screens