An elderly husband, with a look of despair and exasperation, sits at a tall cased escritoire, after reading his young wife's account book; she sits in the chair next to the desk hiding her smile behind a handkerchief. Behind her is a harp. On the desk...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Couples, Desks, Harps, Interiors, Parlors, and Writing materials
A man and woman in their pajamas and slippers stand looking in fright at the closed door of their bedroom. He wears a night cap and stands with a weapon in each hand, pointed at the door; his figure casts a large shadow on the back wall and over the ...
A thin man in a cap pulled down on his head feeds a morsel of food to an obese woman who combs a wig in her hand as they sit on a sofa before a table laid with lunch. They are in a well-appointed sitting room decorated with a mirror above a fireplace ...
Allegorical caricature: Two couples approach a Cupid-like statue of a man with wings that has come alive; he wears a wig and carries a bow and a torch (extinguishing as he holds in downwards); he stands on a plinth hung with bags of money, an open che...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Chez Noel Fréres rue des Prétres, St. Germain l'Auxerois, no. 22. Rue St. Jacques no. 16
"Probably a copy of a French print. An elderly and ugly couple in old-fashioned dress, stand close together, but turning aside with expressions of angry resentment. There is a companion plate, 'Le Raccamodement Making up'."--British Museum online cata...
"Copy of a French print. Two fantastically dressed couples dance, but in different manners. One pair (left) dance side by side, the man's right arm on his partner's waist, her left arm on his shoulder. The other couple face each other, the lady leanin...
Alternative Title:
Bon genre, 1810
Description:
Title from text above and below image.
Publisher:
Dépose à la Bibliot. Nat., Rue Montmartre, No. 132, et à Londres, chéz H. Humphrey, St. James Street, No. 27
Copy in reverse of William Hogarth's "Woman swearing a child to a grave citizen. A pregnant young woman standing to left, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to right, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ru...
