print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 2001,1125.51
- Title
- Object: Saint Monday in the Afternoon, or All Nine and Swallow the Bowl
- Description
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Nine tradesman; a weaver, barber, tailor, blacksmith, cobbler, butcher, carpenter, bricklayer and house-painter playing skittles in tavern garden, with wife of weaver arriving from left to berate him. 1770s
Etching
- Production date
- 1770s
- Dimensions
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Height: 421 millimetres
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Width: 502 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Saint Monday was the traditional unofficial day's holiday taken by tradesmen in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
This print is evidently based, though at several removes, on one of Francis Hayman's paintings of the early 1740s for the supper-boxes at Vauxhall Gardens: "The Play of Skittles and the Husband upbraided by the Wife". The painting is lost, but its composition is recorded in a drawing at Birmingham City Art Gallery, see B. Allen, Francis Hayman, exhibition catalogue, Yale Center for British Art, 1987, no. 58
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2001
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2001,1125.51