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These are matrimonial douceurs
Title
These are matrimonial douceurs [art original] / H.B. f.
Production
[England], [1765?]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink on brown laid paper ; sheet 75 x 97 mm
Notes
Titled by the artist in ink below image.
Signed in upper right corner with the artist's initials.
Date from local card catalog record.
Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Summary
A wife has chased her husband out of the house and comes up behind him, holding a broom above her head, ready to strike. He has stopped to pray, hands clasped in front of his chest. Through the open door of their house a chair and some shelves can be seen; a set of antlers hangs above the doorway. The face of another person is visible in a second-story window; they peer out at the scene, amused.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 23, 2020
References
Henry William Bunbury, These are Matrimonial Douceurs. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Henry William Bunbury, These are Matrimonial Douceurs. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1765.
Ink drawings - British - 18th century.
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