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D5459 - George Murgatroyd Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist - [c1780]-1840
2 - Prints by Woodward (Dated) - 1785-1812
23 - [Decorative Borders] - 1799-1800
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D5459/2/23/11
Former Reference
D5459/2/141
Title
Grotesque Borders for Rooms & Halls : No 16
Date
1 Aug 1799
Description
Three strips arranged in columns.
Column 1.
A Lilliputian man addresses a weeping woman: "Hence loathed melancholy", which is the first line of 'L'Allegro', by John Milton (1608 - 1674).
A sailor using an eyeglass to admire a young woman wearing a patterned dress and muff.
A woman in a high-waisted dress, addressing shepherds. The verse is taken from a caricature of the same name, published by Newton in 1795.
Othello comes across Desdemona in bed. Act 5, scene 2 of 'Othello'.
Column 2.
A brewer's daughter and another girl argue over precedence.
A Lilliputian balding beau is introduced to an ugly young woman for a dance.
A large woman threatens to hit a large man.
A Lilliputian 'jemmy' smiling at two girls. He speaks the lines "A Clerk was I in London gay … " which are from a song included in Colman's 'Inkle and Yarico' first staged at the Haymarket on 4 August 1787. They are also quoted at the beginning of Charles Lamb's essay 'The Superannuated Man', where they are attributed to O'Keefe.
Column 3.
A Lilliputian cobbler and his wife. The line "Of all the trades from east to west" is from a song from 'The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphos'd' of 1731, by Charles Coffey.
A large Lilliputian man in old-fashioned clothes kneeling before a woman playing a harp. He quotes "Ah sure a pair was never seen ( … )" from act I, scene I of 'The Mourning Bride', by Congreve.
A short fat man and an ugly woman.
An old beau holding an umbrella leers at a ballad-singer in the rain.
Available on CD 161.
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Item
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Artist
Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809)
Archive Creator
George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer
Further Information
Etch'd by Rowlandson
Pub Aug 1 1799 by R Ackermann 101 Strand
Physical Description
Hand-coloured print. Size 473 x 344 mm. Portrait.
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
Publication Note
BM Sat 9490
Term
Sailors
Image
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