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Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/23/3 |
Former Reference | D5459/2/164 |
Title | Borders for Rooms & Screens : No 7 |
Date | 10 May 1799 |
Description | Three strips, arranged horizontally. All of the figures are Lilliputian caricatures.
Row 1. A couple in a carriage. A highwayman holding up another man on horseback. Two boys ploughing. One sings: "You'll forget the little ploughboy", taken from 'The Ploughboy' a song about the progression of a boy from cowherd to politician. Some versions attribute it to O'Keefe. The second boy says: "I whistle and drive my team", which appears to come from another song entitled 'The Ploughboy', of which one line is "He whistles and sings and drives his team"
Row 2. Two men playing billiards. A man and a woman fishing. A family (mother, father, son, dog, and oarsman) in a boat. A man in a barge shouting at the boat.
Row 3. A Lilliputian mail coach trying to overtake a penny-post man. A tailor on a rearing horse A large man riding in a gig. 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 | Woodward Delin : Etched by Rowlandson
London Pub 10 May 1799 at R Ackermann's 101 Strand |
Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 481 x 340 mm. |
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 |
Publication Note | BM Sat 9488 |
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