print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.3027
- Title
- Object: The Breakfast. Symptoms of Drowsiness
- Description
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Sportsmen in a bare breakfast parlour, with a small round table on which are tea-pot and cups, a loaf, and a wine-bottle. A stout man (left) sits beside the table, holding a wine-glass, his right hand on a dog's head; a boy kneels at his feet fastening on spurs; a yawning valet dresses his hair. He talks to a man standing on the extreme left, holding his hat and whip. Another man, a whip under his arm, stands at the table cutting a piece of bread. A short man sits with his back to the table examining the lock of his gun. Two men enter from the right, yawning violently. A pair of coupled dogs (right) prance in their eagerness to start. On the wall and hanging from the ceiling are antlers, a bird in a cage, a (?) saddle, a game-bag, a pair of pistols, a hat and whip, a fowling-piece. A companion print to BMSat 8538. A re-issue in 1794 of a plate first published earlier
Stipple
- Production date
- 1794
- Dimensions
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Height: 418 millimetres
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Width: 494 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', VII, 1942)
Reissued with the imprint 'Published April 21, 1803. by Jn° Harris N° 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8, Old Broad Street, London'
(Supplementary information)
Probably a reprint
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.3027