Browse this collection | This entry describes an individual archive record or file. Click here to browse the full catalogue for this collection |
Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/23/9 |
Former Reference | D5459/2/163 |
Title | Grotesque Borders for Rooms & Halls |
Date | 20 Jul 1799 |
Description | Three strips, arranged in rows. Row 1. Men sitting around a table discussing 'fashionable galleys'. Mayor and corporation (all monkeys) bow to a cat wearing a dress seated on a dais.
Row 2. Two Lilliputian tumblers and an announcer. A cat and her daughter, both wearing dresses, consult a monkey lawyer about her husband's will. A parson beating a man with a stick for not bowing to him. A man looking up a ballet dancer's skirt with an eye-glass.
Row 3. A man talking to a Jew. A cricket match. A man with a donkey selling sand. Available on CD 161. |
Level | Item |
Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
Further Information | Woodward Del : Etched by Rowlandson Pubd July 20th 1799 at Akermans Gallery No 101 Strand |
Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 480 x 355 mm. |
Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
Related Material | See subseries D5459/2/23 for other printed borders |
Image |
|