print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1861,0518.1114
- Title
- Object: The cobler's wife. Sung by Mr Mathews, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane ...
- Description
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Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung by Mr Mathews, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane; in the Grand Operatical Romance "The Forty Thieves"'. A cobbler flourishes a strap, while a little woman in Turkish trousers and jewelled turban runs away behind him. On the left. is his shed and a bench with tools. Behind is a large quasi-oriental building, with minaret and dome. The verses relate how the cobbler thrashed his very small wife who ran away between his legs 'for ever'. They end:
'"Twou'd break my heart, to lose my awl,
To lose my wife's a trifle.' 12 November 1806
Etching
- Production date
- 1806
- Dimensions
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Height: 229 millimetres
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Width: 280 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', VIII, 1947)
For the play see BMSat 10459, &c. Mathews played Mustapha, cobbler of Bagdad.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0518.1114