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Hiring a servant
Title
Hiring a servant [graphic].
Publication
[London] : By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, [1811]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 25 x 36 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Beginning of imprint, including date, has been removed from plate; date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego.
Plate numbered "124" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
"Price one shilling cold."
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.
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
"An obese 'cit' and his wife sit side by side at a small round breakfast-table, facing a tall handsome young woman who stands before them. The wife, registering surprise, asks: "What Situation in my Family woud you wish to undertake Young Woman." She answers demurely: "Ma'am I should like to be under Your Man Cook by Way of Improvement." The 'cit', excited and angry, exclaims: "What's that you say I'll be D--nd If you shall be under my Man Cook or any other man in my house." The fat cook, outside the open door (right), laughs uproariously. A large fierce cat advances towards the girl. On the table are tea-things, a large urn, and boiled eggs."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 11, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9, no. 11815
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 220
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1811.
Etchings - England - London - 1811.
Watermarks (Paper) - 1817.
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