Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A smokey house and a scolding wife.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 17/Normal/Prints/Titles Sc-So GA 2014.00492
Identifier
ark:/88435/5138jn98h
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1821/05/--.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1821
Extent
1 item ; sheet 30 x 48.1 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 368
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Aquatints, Hand coloring
Depiction: A suffering mortal is seated at an unfurnished dinner table. The man's hands are clasped, his brows are knit, and his lips tightly closed, in an effort to maintain his patience and his temper under two exasperating provocatives to violence. Placed before the bent-down martyr to domestic infirmities is a phantom bone of mutton presumably the husband has taken exception both to the insufficiency of the joint and the superabundance of smoke, which is eddying round in volumes, and is filling the apartment with dense blackness while his better half, sailing like a fury out of the gloom, is an object to inspire terror in the boldest heart, and the stings of the sharp tongue are apparently even more intimidating than her nails or her knuckles, all of which weapons of offence are enlisted against her pitiable helpmate.
Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson 1821".

Discovery Information

Subject
Spouses—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Husband abuse—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Dwellings—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Marriage—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Suffering—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Dinners and dining—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/01c186c7-f1ef-441a-948c-2c1d5f7bfc34/manifest