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Four o'clock in town.
1790
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Metadata
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 07/Normal/Prints/Titles En-Fo GA 2014.00245
- Publisher
- [London] : [s.n.], 1790/10/20.
- People
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- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Caricature
- Soldiers—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Alcoholism—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
- Spouses—England—London—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Household employees—England—London—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Bedrooms—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
- Morning—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
- City and town life—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Four o'clock in town.
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 07/Normal/Prints/Titles En-Fo GA 2014.00245
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/t722hh89c
- Publisher
- [London] : [s.n.], 1790/10/20.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1790
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 32.8 x 42.5 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- References
- Grego I, pp. 280-281 (gives publisher J. Jones)
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Medium: Aquatints, Hand coloring
- Depiction: A young and well-favoured military buck has returned to his house at the advanced and disreputable hour of four o'clock in the morning, as indicated in the title. He has evidently been "making a night of it" and is considerably the worse for his potations. His young and pretty wife, who is in bed, is thrown into a mixed condition between consternation, fear and resentment at the condition of her gallant spouse. The husband is propped up in an armchair, and left to the care of two comely housemaids, who are making efforts to assist this hopeless rake to divest himself of his clothes - an essential preliminary towards going to bed which he is signally unable to perform for himself. He is perfectly helpless in the hands of these wenches, and is contemplating with an imbecile air an empty purse, the result of his evening's recreations.
- Signed in plate, lower left: "Design'd and etched by T. Rowlandson".
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Caricature
- Soldiers—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Alcoholism—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
- Spouses—England—London—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Household employees—England—London—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Bedrooms—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
- Morning—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
- City and town life—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/55b33469-caf4-4e03-8c83-14cdfc11bd8b/manifest