A man looks up in horror at the image of a demon, smoking a pipe and holding a lantern, sitting astride his sleeping wife beside him in their truckle bed. A horse looks on, his head poking through the casement window. Beside their bed is a candle, ch...
Alternative Title:
Nightmare
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Holland, October 26, 1794, No. 50 Oxford Steet [sic]
Four scenes in one plate, each with a separate title, each showing a marital or courtship scenes with monkeys and cats and pictures on the walls that amplify the domestic scene
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 26, 1810 by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Couples, Courtship, Fighting, Spouses, Draperies, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Monkeys
A pretty young woman sits on the knee of a military officer as they embrace, both unaware that her furious, red-faced husband has just entered the room through the door on the left. He clutches a large stick and exclaims, "My wife, as sure as I am a h...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
"A pretty young woman sits on the knee of a military officer. They are unaware of the entry (left) of the furious husband, stick in hand. He is ugly and elderly and says: "My Wife, as sure as I am a Haberdasher."--British Museum online catalogue
"The Duke (left) and Duchess of St. Albans stand facing each other; the little Duke staggering under an ornamental basket which supports a side of bacon, inscribed Best Wiltshire. The Duchess holds on her shoulder a cutter in which are seated six oars...
Alternative Title:
Scene in the honeymoon and Conjugal felicity
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849, St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Braham, John, 1774-1856, and Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Spouses, Baskets, Bacon, Boats, Rowers, and Spectators
"'Cits' (i.e. citizens) ride (left to right) (types of vulgar horsemanship, cf. BMSats 7233, 7242) in a cloud of dust, following a crowded stage-coach inscribed 'To the Races'. A rough two-wheeled cart, crammed with a family party, is drawn by a cante...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby. 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
London (England),
Subject (Topic):
City council members, Dogs, Ducks, Stagecoaches, Signs (Notices), and Spouses
An angry wife confronts her astonished husband with a letter from his paramour in which she suggests a rendezvous in the garden after the wife has gone to bed
An angry wife confronts her astonished husband with a letter from his paramour in which she suggests a rendezvous in the garden after the wife has gone to bed
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
