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D5459 - George Murgatroyd Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist - [c1780]-1840
- 1 - Drawings - [c1780]-1809

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D5459/1/83
Former Reference	D5459/1/12
Title	[Young family sitting down]
Date	[1780-1799]
Description	A domestic scene of a young family with pets. The husband, wearing breeches, and red and white striped waistcoat blue coat and bag-wig is seated in a chair. In his right hand he is holding a book, which he is reading, and he holds his wife's hand in his left. She is also seated, and wears a pale pink dress and a mobcap with a blue ribbon. She is looking at her husband, and on her lap is seated a small child in a white dress and red shoes. On the floor to the left of the man a tabby cat appears to be grooming a dog. The scene takes place in a pleasant room. Light shines in through a window on the right of the picture, the walls are painted blue beneath the dado and white above it and the floor is covered in a carpet of what seems to be a Union Jack design. On the wall behind the couple is an oval mirror, on either side of which are allegorical paintings. To the left of the mirror is a picture of Time, standing in a landscape in front of a church. He is crowning two hearts joined by an arrow with a wreath. Below the picture the caption reads: 'Time strengthens our Love'. To the right of the mirror is a picture of a couple seated beneath a tree. The caption reads: 'How sweet the love that meets return'.
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Artist	Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809)
Archive Creator	George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer
Further Information	Taken as a whole, the picture appears to be an idealisation of family love.
Physical Description	Coloured drawing. Size 290 x 250 mm.
Copies	A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
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