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Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/23/8 |
Former Reference | D5459/2/130 |
Title | Borders for Rooms and Halls : No 10 |
Date | 10 Jul 1799 |
Description | Three strips, arranged in rows. Row 1. A recruiting officer with two yokels A cat playing the violin to a monkey. "That strain again" is an adaptation of the Duke of Orsino's speech at the beginning of 'Twelfth Night'. A skeleton and a woman. "Lady lay your costly robes aside" is taken from the old English poem 'The Messenger of Mortality; or Life and Death Contrasted in a Dialogue between Death and a Lady'. A young woman and cupid.
Row 2. A man and a woman wearing a low cut dress with large ostrich feathers. The woman mentions 'Ranelagh' referring to the fashionable pleasure gardens of the same name. Two men playing nine pins. A woman presents colours to a soldier for valour. A monkey and a cat, both clothed, play shuttlecock.
Row 3. A man displaying a camel. A crowd of men annoy a woman with an over-turned barrow. Two men play dice. A man and a clergyman drinking and smoking. Available on CD 161. |
Level | Item |
Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
Further Information | Rowlandson Sculp : Woodward Del
Pubd July 10 1799 at Akermans Gallery No 101 Strand |
Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 495 x 342 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 |
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