print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1876,0510.108
- Title
- Object: Damp sheets.
- Description
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The interior of an inn bedroom. A man and a good-looking woman stand in night-attire with bare legs holding a sheet; a buxom chambermaid with a warming-pan enters (right); the man, who is lean and elderly, shakes his left fist in her face; she gapes stupidly. On the ground is a trunk, a pair of top-boots, a boot-jack, stays, and shoes. A lighted candle is in a basin on the floor (left). Behind is a large curtained bed with disordered bed-clothes. A door with carved panels indicates a dignified room. 1 August 1791.
Etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1791
- Dimensions
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Height: 318 millimetres
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Width: 408 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)
Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 293-5 (copy). Reproduced, Fuchs, p. 280 (dated 1787).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1876,0510.108