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The dinner spoil'd!
Title
The dinner spoil'd! [graphic] / Woodward del. ; etched by Rowlandson.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Oct. 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, N. 101 Strand, [1 October 1799]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 21.4 x 19.3 cm, on sheet 27 x 21 cm
Medium
laid paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Series title and number etched above image.
Earlier state, with date in imprint, of no. 9622 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Earlier state of print described in: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 14.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"No.1: A small dinner-table, largely covered by a pale leg of mutton behind which sits the irate husband, carving-knife and fork in hand. His wife opposite (right) glares at him, two youths look anxious. He says: "Its rod! not fit to eat! - these are the blessed effects of boiling Mutton in a clath!!" A dog watches him. On the wall (right) is a framed picture of 'Peace and Concord', two allegorical figures."--British museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Dinner spoiled
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 10, 2008
Series
Matrimonial comforts ; sketch 1
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1799.
Etchings - England - London - 1799.
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