A couple sit in two chairs, the man with his back to his wife is asleep with his hands resting on his large belly. The woman thin and with a forelorn look on her face sits in a large comfortable chair, looking out, her book at her side and a handkerchief in her hand
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Captions below image: Mr. Dowton as Dr. Cantwell; Mrs. Harlowe as Old Lady Lambert; Mr. Liston as Maw-Worm., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A scene in a bank: actor John Liston as the comic character Paul Pry, quizzing glass raised to his eyes, stands at the desk of a red-faced banker (left) who sits with quill pen in hand, another behind his ear, lower lip jutting out as he glares at his customer. A second customer enters the door of the bank (right) with papers in-hand. Paul Pry is a character from a John Poole farce of the same name. Pry is characterized as a man consumed with curiosity, a busybody unable to mind his own business. Pry wears striped trousers, hessian boots, tail coat and top hat, and carries an umbrella that he leaves behind so that he would have an excuse to return and eavesdrop
Description:
Title from text below image., Possibly by George Edward Madeley. Cf. Mr. Liston as 'Billy Lackaday" in "Sweethears & wives"., Date of publication based the entry for partnership, Ingrey & Madeley whose earliest recorded imprint is 1824 and latest 1829., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1825.
Publisher:
Pub. by Ingrey & Madeley, Lithogc. Office, 310 Strand
Title from caption below image; series title from heading above image., Prints in this series are based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia., Date of publication based on an American publication., Sixteen lines of text below title: One hundred dollar reward. O yes, know ye, all person, whereas on or about the 33d inst of ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Date of publication based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia.
Title from caption below image., Three lines of text below title: The hounds of J.T. Villebois Esqr. generally styled the Hampshire Hunt on the 11th of Janry. 1825 after ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Pantry -- Shelves -- Food.
Title from heading within image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption text under each bust: The old and young husband ; the old and young wife., Two lines of text above image inscribed upside down in reference to remainder of print: In lifes early bloom, how sad to remember, that times hand, like yours turns May to December., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.