Title devised by curator., In ink lower margin: Docr. Gall drawn by T. Rowlandson and given to his old friend Smith., Date of production based on artist's death date., Place of production based on artist's nationality., Ownership stamp in red ink, lower left: LSD., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Rowlandson from curator., Date based on artist's death date., and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from published print: Published Octr., 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title devised by curator., Pencil inscription verso., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local subject terms: Country doctors., Temporary local subject terms: Dental examination., Temporary local subject terms: Corns., and Temporary local subject terms: Office interiors.
Subject (Topic):
Podiatry, Dentistry, Dental offices, Pain, and Surgery
Title devised by curator., Date of production based on artist's death date., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Anatomists, Surgical instruments and apparatus, Human skeleton, and Grave robbing
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; tentative attribution to Rowlandson from curator., Date based on artist's death date., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Patients, Psychiatric.
Subject (Topic):
Psychotherapy patients, Mentally ill persons, Shackles, and Pipes (Smoking)
A scene in a chamber with the end of canopy bed visible in the background, left. A woman in her undergarments, a candlestick in the foreground positioned suggestively between her legs, reaches out to cover her husband's one good eye as he walks through the front door; behind her, her lover escapes undetected with his clothes over his arm. Outside, through the open door, a servant can be seen leading a horse, with a barn across the yard. To the right of the door, a chamber pot sits on a ladder-back chair with a hat and a fiddle hanging off pegs on the wall above
Alternative Title:
Wife's dream
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date supplied by cataloger., and With an extensive inscription on verso, in an unidentified hand, that might represent the original idea for this drawing that was sent to Rowlandson: A woman being catched in her Bedchamber with her Paramour by her husband who had but one Eye. She ran to him, crying aloud that she dream he saw with both’ and therefore, I must know," added the artful Baggage "whether my Dream be fulfill’d - saying this she shut his good Eye which gave her Gallant an opportunity of slipping away unperceived by her husband.
A young woman presumably a prostitute, bare breasted and with a dejected look on her face, is being led up the steps of a building by a beadle or constable, her head bowed in shame. Her infant has been left in the arms of an older woman, stands at the base of the stairs ont he right. Another, older child, seated on a lower step in the foreground, looks up at the scene. The building has barred windows
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Signed by the artist in lower right: T. Rowlandson., and Date supplied by cataloger.