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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.
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
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