Browse this collection | This entry describes an individual archive record or file. Click here to browse the full catalogue for this collection |
Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/23/2 |
Former Reference | D5459/2/129a |
Title | Grotesque Borders for Rooms and Screens : Plate 5 |
Date | 30 Apr 1799 |
Description | Three strips arranged vertically. Column 1. 'Extravangazas'. "The sports are begun". Two Lilliputian jockeys. A man dressed as a coachman talks to another man about his new curricle, bought on the 'new plan'. A Lilliputian man addresses a woman wearing a huge nightcap. A doctor and an undertaker shake hands.
Column 2. A doctor talking to a young man about biology. A couple making hay, entitled: "Bonny Jacky, blithe and gay" The line is from a Scottish tune. It comes from the seventeenth-century opera 'The Mock Marriage', with text by Thomas Scott and musical setting by Purcell. A lawyer talking to a man about a chancery suit. A schoolmaster threatening his student with a switch. 'Old Chiron' refers to the centaur who instructed heroes such as Achilles in the arts of hunting, riding, archery and so forth.
Column 3. A Lilliputian man and a sleeping woman. "Hush every breeze ... " is a line from a late eighteenth-century song. Two gossiping women drinking chocolate. A Lilliputian man with a laughing woman. A dressmaker and a woman in an ill-fitting dress. Available on CD 160. |
Level | Item |
Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
Further Information | Subtitle: EXTRAVAGANZAS
Etched by Rowlandson : Woodward del
Pubd April 30th 1799 at R Ackermann's Gallery 101 Strand |
Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 487 x 341 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 |
Image |
|