Watercolor depicting a scowling elderly merchant wearing a floppy hat and apron. She stands a table on which her wares are laid; she leans on a knife, stabbed point-down into the table's surface. On the table are a crude balance scale for weighing th...
Description:
Title from caption penned near lower edge of sheet.
"A satire on marriage; An old man seated with one leg bandaged and raised on chair in front of him, being attended to by a maid; behind him his young wife is locked in an embrace with her younger lover."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Adultery, Women domestics, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Crutches, Clocks & watches, Draperies, Birdcages, Parrots, Chairs, and Bells
publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 1st 1769.
Call Number:
769.06.01.01+
Collection Title:
Page 61. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a paneled room hung with mirrors and a clock, the master of the house, in dressing gown and nightcap, puts his hand on the bosom of a maid who serves him biscuits. Next to him a clergyman looks adoringly at the lady of the house on his left. In his...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Furniture, Mirrors, Longcase clocks, Women domestics, Clergy, Books, Servants, Parrots, Birdcages, Squirrels, and Monkeys
A young Arawak native American woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her right foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left. On the left in the distance anot...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Hunting, and Parrots
