Details

Subject(s)

• Caricature [Browse]
• Families—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Sleep—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Courtship—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Musicians—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Pianists—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Dwellings—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]

Caricaturist

• Wigstead, Henry, ca. 1745-ca. 1800 [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Aquatints, Hand coloring
• Depiction: Caricature. Old man and old lady, mother and father of young girl, sitting by the fire and have been apparently asleep. The old lady is just awakening and discovers young gallant declaring love to the daughter. The daughter is playing the piano.
• Signed in plate, lower right: "H. Wigstead".
• Unsigned by Rowlandson.

Source acquisition

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

References

Grego I, p. 328

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