- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- [n.d.]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to BMSat 9670. In a squalid room French dancers practise to a fiddle played by an older man (right) who dances as he plays. The parents of the four children dance, facing each other. She is elegant, buxom, with an elaborate feathered coiffure. He is lean, wearing a tattered but well-fitting coat over bare legs, with sleeve-ruffles (cf. the old gibe that the Frenchman wore ruffles but no shirt). He wears a toupee wig with a long queue. A boy and girl, both with hair elaborately dressed, dance together more vigorously. A little girl (right) with bare legs practises the first position, heels together. On the left a boy plays the pipe and tabor to two dogs, one wearing cloak and hat, whom he is teaching to dance. His chair is the only furniture except for a truckle-bed (left) turned up to the wall and a much-tilted wall-mirror (right). A lean cat has climbed to a small cupboard recessed in the wall near the ceiling and licks a stoppered bottle. The cupboard contains a coffee-pot, a covered jar, &c. A print of two clumsy peasant dancers is pinned to the wall, from which plaster has flaked. All practise with serious concentration."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France--Foreign opinion, British.
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Fuchs, Eduard,--1870-1940--Ownership., Fuchs, Eduard,--1870-1940--Stamp., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats., Children., Couples. , Dance., Dogs., and Interiors.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A French family [graphic] / T. Rowlandson delin. ; S. Alken fecit.
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1781 August 1
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A domestic interior. In the upper margin is engraved, "Give me the sweet delight of Love - a Catch", and the design illustrates the lines of the catch: "A smoky house, a failing trade, Six squalling brats, and a scolding jade." A man (full-face) stands disconsolately, his hands clasped while his virago of a wife (left) threatens him with her fist. One small child pulls his coat and points to a little brother kicking on the floor, while a rather older girl weeps with her pinafore to her eyes, and another boy blows a trumpet. This group is on the right. On the left one child clutches another by the hair. The man's toes protrude through one of his shoes, he is without breeches, and these hang from a nail on the wall (right) next his wife's hat. A parroquet sits screeching on the outside of its cage. The plaster has fallen from the wall in patches, showing bricks. A smoky fire burns in the grate (left); on the chimney-piece are tea-things."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Give me the sweet delight of love : a catch, Plaisir du mènage, and Plaisirs du mènage
- Description:
- Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., CtY-LW, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Children., Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790., Couples. , Domestic life., and Families.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Les plaisir [sic] du mènage [graphic] / Agnes T-n.