print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1848,0911.483
- Title
- Object: Mother Louse
- Description
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Portrait of an innkeeper known as 'Mother Louse'; an old woman with pointed chin, smiling, almost three-quarter length, directed to right, wearing bonnet, tall conical hat, ruff and apron, a jug in her right hand by her side, a tankard in her left, held out; landscape in the distance beyond, at right, her inn, lettered 'Louse Hall', a famous establishment outside the city of Oxford; fanciful coat of arms at top right: three lice surmounted by a tankard, motto on banner underneath, 'Three liese pas-sant'. 1672; a re-issue of an earlier plate
Engraving with etching
- Production date
- 1650-1672 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 252 millimetres
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Width: 185 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Loggan made this print whilst in Oxford, where he lived from 1665 to 1675. The Restoration censor Sir Roger L'Estrange granted Overton a licence to republish it in 1672, with several other plates from his old stock. See Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Stuart Britain, 1603-1689' (1998), pp.146-8, 198. See also M.Jones 'The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight', New Haven and London, 2010, pp.306-307.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1848
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1848,0911.483
