"A small ugly man trots (walking left to right) deprecatingly beside his wife, a large, over-dressed, scowling termagant, on their Sunday outing. He carries her umbrella, cloak, pattens, and a bundle in a check handkerchief. She holds a fan. An elderly man (right) walking in the opposite direction looks angrily at the couple; he swaggers in front of his pretty young wife, who appears pregnant and walks carrying a little girl and an umbrella. Behind them is an inn with the sign: 'The Old Swant [sic] Ordinary on Sunday'. A couple sit on a bench."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hen peckd husband and Hen pecked husband
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Variant state without plate number. Cf. No. 10909 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and The last 'p' in 'Nincompoop' was erased, but remnants are visible.
The scene is the interior of a gothic church, with a view of part of a lateral gallery, the tower arch, and west door (on the right). The foreground and the gallery are filled with couples, in general elderly, ugly, and fashionably dressed, in conversation or bowing to each other. An unicorn on a monument holding an escutcheon is conspicuous. On the right the congregation is crowding towards the open door
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 80' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Year in imprint erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Published by Allen & Co., 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Clothing & dress, Couples, Interiors, and Monuments
A very fat gentleman on the left paying court to an ugly old lady on the right; both are seated with the gentleman with a small dog beneath his chair and a cat near his feet; the lady is holding a fan and wearing the towering hairstyle of the period. Behind them draperies are pulled aside revealing shelves of books
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication follows publisher's street address., Numbered in lower left of plate: 382., Variant of George 4557, without verses below design, but with imprint date present., and Contemporary pencil ms. notation identifying subjects: Mr. Mason & Mrs. Montague.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Montague, Elizabeth Robinson, 1720-1800. and Mason, William, 1725-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Couples, Interiors, Bookcases, Dogs, and Cats
A young couple face each other as they begin to dance in a hall lighted by a wall sconce with a mirror and a chandelier. Behind them an older woman looks on.
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of verse below title: "While graceful Marian leads the gay Quadrille", "What new sensations Henry's boson fill," "An introduction gained, the youth advances" "And hope she's disengaged the two next dances.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bowing, Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance parties, and Etiquette
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
Octr. 28, 1777.
Call Number:
777.10.28.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A very corpulent couple facing left, promenade arm in arm. The gentleman, behind the woman, wears a military coat, ruffled shirt and a tricorne hat with a bow on the front. He carries a walking stick, and the pommel of his sword is just visible behind the voluminous dress of his wife, whose face is nearly hidden in an enormous calash hat of the period
Alternative Title:
Captain Calipash and Mrs. Calipee
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark., Signed in lower left image M.D. i.e. Matthias Darly?, MD of publisher's name form a monogram., and Numbered '35' in ink on upper mount.
An engraving showing a very tall military officer (full-length) walking towards the right, a cane under his right arm. By his sife is a very short, fat lady. Both are dressed in the fashion of the day
Alternative Title:
Captain Conquest and his baggage waggon
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Couples, Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Obesity, and Staffs (Sticks)
An engraving showing a very tall military officer (full-length) walking towards the right, a cane under his right arm. By his sife is a very short, fat lady. Both are dressed in the fashion of the day
Alternative Title:
Captain Conquest and his baggage wagon
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imprint from state described in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., Cf. No. 4604 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Robt. Sayer & J. Smith?
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Couples, Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Obesity, and Staffs (Sticks)