"Plate numbered 3 of Tim Bobbin [pseudonym of John Collier], "Human Passions Delineated", 1773, with a wife pulling her husband's hair as he attacks her with a ladle."--British Museum online catalogue
A semi-comic gift card showing the eight stages of matrimony: Possession, Rumination, Alteration, Irritation, Disputation, Desperation, Detestation, and Separation. Each stage is described with four lines of verse and with vignette scenes of a husband...
IIn an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Poverty, a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and ...
IIn an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Poverty, a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and ...
"An untidy garret with a man in a dressing-gown working on a poem entitled 'Poverty' while his wife is confronted by a milkmaid with a lengthy tally who demands payment; a baby in bed is crying; a dog eats meat from a plate on a chair; behind the poet...
Alternative Title:
Studious he sate, with all his books around
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1st, 1797 by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
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 throug...
"Husband and wife dressing in a bedroom, the tent-shaped bed-curtains forming a background. The woman is thin and has a mole on her face, the man broad, but their deficiencies are similar. She stands (left), about to raise her shift and adjust false p...
Alternative Title:
Persons in wedlock should be properly matched
Description:
Titles from text in French and English below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 20, 1820 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bedrooms, Baldness, Marriage, Wigs, Dentures, and Artificial eyes
