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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D5459/2/8
TitleA Discourse on Wives
Date1 Nov 1796
DescriptionTwo copies of the same print.
Two men sit either side of a small table upon which are a jug and two glasses. The man on the left is smiling a holding a pipe in his left hand. He says to his companion:
"La! Neighbour. How you talk. I have had five and am going to be married again, bless the sweet creattures, how they always called me tall Joey, the Lad for the Ladies."
His companion, on the right, is also smoking pipe, but has a serious expression and says:
"I never had but one vife, and if I was to love her I'd never have another."
Extent2 prints
LevelSubSeries
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
ArtistWoodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809)
Archive CreatorGeorge Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer
Further InformationWoodard [sic]del

Published November 1st 1796 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly

Folios of Carricatures Lent out for the Evening.
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