A pretty young woman sits at a table opposite a fat, older man, asleep with his glasses pushed on his forehead. The sit before a fire in a bedroom with a canope over the bed or couch (left), a guitar leaning against it. Two other pretty young woman en...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 26, 1800, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Birdcages, Dogs, Fireplaces, Guitars, Sleeping, Women, and Young adults
"An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat."--Briti...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Care and hygiene, Surgery, Podiatry, Knives, Fireplaces, Older people, Pails, Slippers, Brooms & brushes, and Cats
"An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat."--Briti...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Care and hygiene, Surgery, Podiatry, Knives, Fireplaces, Older people, Pails, Slippers, Brooms & brushes, and Cats
"The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is ...
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
