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Setting out in life
Title
Setting out in life [graphic] / Woodward del.
Published
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1790?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 35 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 38 x 26 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Summary
A gaunt older man sits in an upholstered chair (left) and shown in profile looks upon his well-fed son (facing the viewer). A cat sits at the son's feet. The father says: "It is high time child, thee should't think of setting out in life. Thee art too lively for a farmer, what treade, shoudst like best?" The son replies: "Why father if you have no objection, I should like woundily to be bound prentice to a bishop, for is all pay and little work! Now that would just suit I to a tittle."
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 08, 2006
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1790.
Etchings - England - London - 1790.
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