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Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/23/16 |
Former Reference | D5459/2/126 |
Title | Grotesque Borders for Halls & Rooms : No 19 |
Date | 1 Nov 1800 |
Description | Three strips, arranged vertically. Column 1. A Lilliputian man admiring a woman in a white dress. She is talking about make-up. A Welshman wearing a leek talking to another man about toasted cheese. Two Lilliputian women, one short, one tall, in a scene from the play 'Midas'. A man on his knees talking to a dark woman.
Column 2. A woman in a full dress and feathers talking to another woman in a white empire-line dress. Two men, one wearing a round hat, jean-de-brie coat and neck-cloth, described as the 'leading beau of Bond Street'. A man in riding gear describes his sister's musical score as tadpoles. A balding Lilliputian beau addresses a woman, "Come live with me and be my love". It is the opening line of 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love', by Christopher Marlowe.
Column 3. "How sweet in the woodland". A Lilliputian hunting couple with bows and arrows and dogs. The lines are taken from a duet by Henry Harington (1727-1816) A lawyer interviewing a young woman. A Lilliputian man asking a servant for dinner. A fashionable young man with cropped hair and long trousers proposing to a demure young woman. 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 | Pub Nov 1 1800 at R Ackermann's 101 Strand |
Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 494 x 391 mm. |
Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
Related Material | See D5459/1/86/4 and D5459/1/86/5 for preparatory drawings See subseries D5459/2/23 for other printed borders |
Publication Note | BM Sat Sup. Ser. 1948-2-14-640 |
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