Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker / Language: English / Subject (Topic): Chairs

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Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1790?]
Call Number:: 790.00.00.127+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A gaunt older man sits in an upholstered chair (left) and shown in profile looks upon his well-fed son (facing the viewer). A cat sits at the son's feet. The father says: "It is high time child, thee should't think of setting out in life. Thee art too lively for a farmer, what treade, shoudst like best?" The son replies: "Why father if you have no objection, I should like woundily to be bound prentice to a bishop, for is all pay and little work! Now that would just suit I to a tittle."
Description:: Title etched below image. 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):: Cats, Chairs, Clergy, Fathers, Occupations, and Sons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Setting out in life [graphic]

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 March 1792]
Call Number:: 792.03.01.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Design in a circle: An old woman and a little boy sit facing each other in a bare and dilapidated room. She sits in profile to the left, in an upholstered armchair, threading a needle to mend clothes; a shirt lies on her patched apron. He sits with hands folded on a ladderback chair. Between and behind them sits a cat
Description:: Title from time., Sheet trimmed on sides within plate mark., and Two lines of text below image: I wish from my heart - one of us three was hang'd - I don't mean you poor Puss - nor I don't mean myself.'
Publisher:: Published March 1st 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):: Boys, Cats, Chairs, Dwellings, Eyeglasses, Grandparents, Interiors, Poverty, and Sewing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The dutiful grandson [graphic]

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:: [26 May 1797]
Call Number:: 797.05.26.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two images on one plate. The top image represents a master glowering at his terrified footman; the bottom image shows a mistress scowling at a frightened maid
Description:: Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 6' in upper left corner., Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: An Olio of Good Breeding ... / by G.M. Woodward. London : Printed for the author and sold by W. Clarke ..., [1797]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 26, 1797, by G.M. Woodward, Berners Street
Subject (Topic):: Anger, Chairs, Servants, and Women domestics
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Displeased with servants] [graphic].