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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. |
Level | 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 |
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