"A 'cit' smokes angrily over his glass, tilting his chair, while his pretty young wife sits with folded arms. A handsome young officer opens the door, apparently unseen by both. Below the design: 'Husband. - What makes you look so thoughtful my Love, what are you puzzling your Dear Head about now." Wife - Why you said last Night at Supper, that you knew every one in our Street were Cuckolds but one, - And I have been Puzzling Myself ever since to find out who that one could be." - "Husband.-" Oh! Oh! Very well, I have done."'"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '202' in lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Cuckolds -- Furnishings -- Furniture.
Publisher:
Published 10th October 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Young adults, Women, Military officers, Adultery, Mirrors, Pipes (Smoking), and Chairs
"A stage-coachman (left) holds open the door of his coach, showing that it is overcrowded with five fat passengers. He speaks to a fat woman who stands in profile to the right, holding a fan, a dog tucked under her left arm. A flagged pavement and cobbled roadway show that they are in a London street. Beneath the title is engraved: '"Just room for one Madam," - "Vell I wow I have run all the way like a Lamp-lighter, till I am all over in such a Heat you can't think."'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified from original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '198' in lower right corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., and One line of text below title: Just room for one Madam, -- vel [sic] I vow I have run all theway like a lamp-lighter ...
Publisher:
Published 1st September 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Obesity, Streets, Travelers, and Women
Two fashionably dressed young women dose on a sofa in a sitting room with wallpapered walls and a rug on the floor. A young man stands behind the sofa and quietly tickles the check of the young woman on the right. The friendship between the two women is illustrated by the long ribbon tied on one of each of their wrists; around their necks, each, too, wears a pendant with miniature portrait of the other. An open book between them on the sofa is titled "The Fair Seducer." An oval mirror hangs on the wall between two windows behind the young man
Alternative Title:
Weary after a walk
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified from original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '200' in lower right corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 8th September 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Friendship, Jewelry, Mirrors, Seduction, Sofas, Sleeping, Wallpapers, and Women