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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/23/12 |
| Former Reference | D5459/2/133 |
| Title | Grotesque Borders for Rooms & Halls : No 18 |
| Date | 20 Oct 1800 |
| Description | Three strips arranged in rows.
Row 1.
A man saying goodbye to his tailor
Lilliputian characters at a baptism
An Irishman fishing by a bridge.
Row 2.
A Lilliputian girl playing a lute. The song is a traditional Scottish song, sung to the tune of 'The Bluebells of Scotland'.
A man weeping into a striped handkerchief. The reference is to 'The Rovers', a poem spoofing Schiller, which was published in Canning's 'Anti-Jacobin Review'. It refers to the moment when the hero, Ruggero, chained in a dungeon, looks at his handkerchief.
An old woman sitting in an armchair, talking to her son. Her son points to their dog called Cuckold.
Two men and a brewer's horse. The ditty "I wish I was a brewer's horse … " is that of Thomas Randall, dating from 1642.
Row 3.
A cheesemonger's wife and a soap boiler's wife arguing over precedence, followed by two men discussing a city rout.
A pair of Lilliputian men laying bets on two men fighting.
A man discussing his will with a lawyer.
Available on CD 161. |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
| Engraver: Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) |
| Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
| Further Information | Woodward Delin : Rowlandson sculp
London Pubd Octr 20 1800 at Ackermann's N101 Strand |
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| Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 498 x 343 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 |
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