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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/23/4 |
| Former Reference | D5459/2/129b |
| Title | Borders for Rooms & Halls : No 8 |
| Date | 20 Jun 1799 |
| Description | Three strips, arranged in rows. All the figures are Lilliputian caricatures.
Row 1.
A man and a roundabout.
A farmer and his wife in a 'Tax'd Cart'.
A newsboy blowing his trumpet with a hat announcing 'The Second Post'.
An organ grinder, a woman playing a tambourine and a little girl playing the triangle. Their refrain "we dance and we sing" resembles wassail songs.
Row 2.
Punch and Judy show with a man passing the hat.
A vicar preaching in a pulpit with the curate telling him the congregation has left.
A man and a large woman sat on a mare.
A peddler selling red garters.
Row 3.
A man with a performing bear and dancing dogs.
A town crier, announcing the loss of an attorney's conscience.
Two men boxing with three onlookers.
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 Inv : Etched by Rowlandson
Pubd June 20th 1799 by R Ackermann No 101 Strand |
| Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 493 x 343 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 bordersBMC 9489 |
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