The mothers hope [graphic] / Woodward del. ; Rowlandson scul.

[London] : Pubd. May 21st, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside, [21 May 1808]

1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 32.5 x 23.7 cm

wove paper

Temporary local subject terms: Male child's costume -- Battledor and shuttlecock -- Canaries -- Female costume 1808 -- Domestic service -- Nursemaid.

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.

"A little boy (looking more like a girl) in a frock and cross-gartered shoes, with short, untidy hair, stands agressively, one foot raised to kick, fists clenched. At his feet are a battledore and shuttlecock and a doll; above his head hangs a canary in a cage. He shouts: I dont like Dolls!-I dont like Canary Birds-I hate Battledore and Shuttlecock, I like Drums, and Trumpets-I wont go to school-I will stay at home-I will have my own way in every thing!! The mother, an ugly middle-aged woman (right), in an old-fashioned dress, with a cap and apron, stoops towards him, saying, Bless the Baby-what an aspiring spirit-if he goes on in this way-he will be a second Buonaparte! Behind her (right) stands a pretty nursemaid holding a younger child who screams and waves a rattle."--British Museum online catalogue.

English

September 07, 2010

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 11137