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Sorrow's dry or a cure for the heart ache.
1811
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Metadata
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 17/Normal/Prints/Titles Sc-So GA 2014.00497
- People
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- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Caricature
- Dead—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Grief—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Marriage—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Spouses—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Older men—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Young women—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Women household employees—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Comfort—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Coffins—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Drinking—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Sorrow's dry or a cure for the heart ache.
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 17/Normal/Prints/Titles Sc-So GA 2014.00497
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/7w62fh31w
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1811
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 39 x 25.8 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- References
- Grego II, pp. 39, 41 (Separt 12, 1802)
- Grego II, p. 210 (Separt 12, 1811, republished)
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
- Depiction: The personal belongings of the deceased -- her watch, little articles of jewelry and plate -- have evidently been ransacked by this affectionate pair of unaffected and disinterested mourners. An open book displays this familiar quotation, bearing somewhat disrespectful application to the case of the departed: "A smoky house and a scolding wife // Are the plagues of man's life. // Oh, what pleasure will abound // When my wife is laid in ground!"
- Depiction: The body of the departed wife is laid out in her coffin, propped on trestles. On the plate let into the lid is engraved the above affecting lines. The lamenting spouse is far gone in a mixed state of grief, intoxication, and maudlin affection. He is making laudable efforts to resign himself to his recent bereavement, and is endeavoring to allay his sorrow, between the combined consolations of drink and the tender solicitudes of a favorite maid, who is exerting herself to administer comfort to her afflicted master, with her arm round his neck.
- Inscribed in plate, below: "Were I not resolved against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curs'd with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again". Dryden.
- Signed in plate, lower left: "Design'd and pub'd by T Rowlandson".
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Caricature
- Dead—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Grief—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Marriage—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Spouses—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Older men—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Young women—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Women household employees—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Comfort—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Coffins—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Drinking—Great Britain—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/66bda98e-c7af-497a-b0ca-53165e8b0d84/manifest