print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.2.1
- Title
- Object: A Man loaded with Mischief, or Matrimony. A Monkey, a Magpie, and Wife; Is the true Emblem of Strife
- Description
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Satire: a man with the chain of wedlock round his neck stoops under the burden of a monkey and his wife sitting on his shoulders; she holds a glass of gin, and a magpie and a monkey; in the background to right, a woman pawns a teapot at the shop of 'S. Gripe Pawnbroker' (copied from Hogarth's Gin Lane). c.1751
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1750
- Dimensions
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Height: 351 millimetres
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Width: 236 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Sheila O'Connell, 'The Popular Print in England', BM 1999, p.115 (another impression, 1992,1003,23).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.2.1
