A scene in a chamber with the end of canopy bed visible in the background, left. A woman in her undergarments, a candlestick in the foreground positioned suggestively between her legs, reaches out to cover her husband's one good eye as he walks through the front door; behind her, her lover escapes undetected with his clothes over his arm. Outside, through the open door, a servant can be seen leading a horse, with a barn across the yard. To the right of the door, a chamber pot sits on a ladder-back chair with a hat and a fiddle hanging off pegs on the wall above
Alternative Title:
Wife's dream
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date supplied by cataloger., and With an extensive inscription on verso, in an unidentified hand, that might represent the original idea for this drawing that was sent to Rowlandson: A woman being catched in her Bedchamber with her Paramour by her husband who had but one Eye. She ran to him, crying aloud that she dream he saw with both’ and therefore, I must know," added the artful Baggage "whether my Dream be fulfill’d - saying this she shut his good Eye which gave her Gallant an opportunity of slipping away unperceived by her husband.
Title from item., Place of publication derived from language of text., Date derived from printing method and style., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Office interior.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Phlebotomy, Singerie (Art)., Barbers, Sick persons, Medicines, Monkeys, Medical offices, Eating & drinking, and Servants
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's known location., Printmaker is also known as Pieter van der Heyden., Print depicts the "Cure of folly," removing stones from the head., Text in French and Dutch., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Folly; Stone (in the head).
Publisher:
Ioan Galle excudit
Subject (Topic):
Mentally ill, Mental illness, Witches, Knives, Rocks, Surgery, Traditional medicine, Mentally ill persons, Violoncellos, Crutches, Water mills, Spectators, Eggs, and Owls
