print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1867,0112.5
- Title
- Object: A sign-painters workshop
- Description
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The interior of a workshop with figures. Three men stand together: a workman holding on his head a pile of three painter's pots, listens to an elderly man wearing a cocked hat and spectacles who reads from a paper. They are watched by a workman holding a curiously shaped bench in which are slots. A fashionably dressed young man sits at an easel (right) painting the lettering on a large board: 'Alam[ode] Beef & Sallard Read[y] morning noon and night Saus[ages] hot bak'd faggots of th[e] highest flavour'. He uses a mahlstick. A seated workman (right) pours the contents of a large jar into a painter's pot. An old man (left) stands at a table kneading a lump of (?) colour. A large Ali-Baba jar stands beside the table. In the back wall are a window and an open (street) door; casks, jars, and pots with brushes are scattered about. The painter has some resemblance to George Morland. c.1790
Etching
- Production date
- 1790 (circa)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 292 millimetres
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Width: 383 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
Similar in mariner to BMSat 7777, &c, and BMSat 7782, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2001 May-Jul, Hanover, Wilhelm-Busch Museum, 'Thomas Rowlandson'
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0112.5
