Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Damp sheets.
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 05/Normal/Prints/Titles Da-Do GA 2014.00172
Identifier
ark:/88435/p26773655
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 30.5 x 38.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego I, p. 294 (reproduced)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
Depiction: A gentleman, who is evidently on his travels, is thrown into a state of the most furious indignation on arriving at the discovery, as he is retiring to rest, that he and his wife have been put into a bed with damp sheets the lady is wringing the moisture from the offending linen, and the husband is dancing about, gesticulating in frantic fashion and shaking his fist in the face of a pretty servant-maid, who, replying to the summons of the injured guests, is bustling up with the warming-pan in her hand, believing her services are required in that direction.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Travelers—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Spouses—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Boardinghouses—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f6e917cf-0457-442d-b9bd-33a55a2f39a8/manifest