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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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