print
- Museum number
- 1977,U.539
- Title
- Object: Tally I O the grinder
- Description
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Scene outside a rural inn with the sign of the 'Cock & Bottle'; a knife-grinder with an erect member grinds a large blade, looking up at a young woman who stands above the grindstone, lifting her skirts to urinate; another young woman with her skirts about her waist turning the wheel at left, and a woman making love to a young man on a seat by the door looking on at right; figures including a bare-breasted girl looking from the windows of the inn; farming implements on the ground at right; after a print by Rowlandson, but with the women's faces and bodies altered within the outline.
Etching and stipple
- Production date
- 19thc
- Dimensions
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Height: 173 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 122 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 'Tally-i-o the grinder' is a popular song about a beloved wife. A pencil note on the mount: 'This is not the original plate but has been copied from that of Rowlandson which is much bolder & more free in execution, has no stipple, & is not so much smo[o]thed down. The size of both is the same, & this is not turned.' See also 'The Rookery', another erotic scene set outside a tavern by Rowlandson, 1977,U.574.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1977
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1977,U.539