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Subject(s)

• Caricature [Browse]
• City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Older men—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Young women—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Sleep—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Overweight men—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Adultery—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Resentment—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Spouses—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Women household employees—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Love-letters—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Aquatints, Hand coloring
• Depiction: A portly old curmudgeon, a very porpoise in face, expression and figure, is tippling and dozing in a semi-maudlin state, in front of the fire-place. His fair companion, an elegant young damsel, is dressed in readiness to make her escape into mo.
• Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson del.".

Source acquisition

Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.

References

Grego II, p. 6 (gives Ackermann June 26, 1800)

Other title(s)

Companion print to "A Silly"

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