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About your business
Title
About your business [art original] / GM Woodward delin.
Published
[England], [1795]
Physical Description
1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 22 x 22 cm
Notes
Title from words written around the face of the clock.
With Woodword's name in the lower left. William A. Gordon 2023 attributes this drawing to Isaac Cruickshank.
Date of creation based on publication date of print. Published by S.W. Fores in November 1795 as "Deputy Pendulum's motiton for an address"; engraved by Isaac Cruikshank with Woodward's name removed form lower left corner.
Provenance
Jarndyce, May 2013.
Summary
An ugly man in old-fashioned dress stands full-face, toes turned in, squinting, and looking downwards. An 'Address' is in his right hand, his left hand is in his breeches pocket; a document inscribed 'Observations' protrudes from his coat-pocket. His scanty audience of seven men, most of them sleeping, is behind him, on either side of a fireplace. A broken candle on the mantel drips wax into the mouth of one of the sleeping men (right), much to the amusement of his neighbour on his right. In the doorway on the far-left, one of the men uses a ear-trumpet; one holds a tea cup in his hand, and a third yawns. Over the chimney-piece is a large clock-face, the hands indicating 10:56; above it is a carved owl and the words 'About your business'.
Variant and related titles
Published title: Deputy Pendulum's motion for an address
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 15, 2013
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1795.
Watercolors - British - 18th century.
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