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D5459 - George Murgatroyd Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist - [c1780]-1840
2 - Prints by Woodward (Dated) - 1785-1812
23 - [Decorative Borders] - 1799-1800
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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.
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A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
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See subseries D5459/2/23 for other printed borders
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