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Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/23/14 |
Former Reference | D5459/2/132 |
Title | Grotesque Borders for Rooms & Halls : No 21 |
Date | 25 Oct 1800 |
Description | Three strips, arranged in rows. Row 1. A man threatens a woman with a switch. She makes a 'horns' sign at him. Lord Mayor and company on a city barge. An Irishman trying to look at himself in the mirror with his eyes closed.
Row 2. A Lilliputian girl with a skipping rope. A woman trying to teach a man to play chess. A short man walking with a very tall wife. A cat dressed as a maid giving a letter to a dog dressed as a town crier.
Row 3. A couple milking a cow. The reference is to a nursery rhyme. A man talks to another about his tea garden. Two Lilliputian characters fencing. Two Irish men walking. 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 | Woodward Del : Rowlandson sculp Pub Oct 29 1800 by R Ackermann 101 Strand |
Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 498 x 345 mm. |
Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
Related Material | See D5459/1/86/3 for preparatory drawings See subseries D5459/2/23 for other printed borders |
Publication Note | BM Sat 9690 |
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