ll faut des epoux assortis dans les liens du mariage [graphic] = Persons in wedlock should be properly matched.

Copyright Date:

[20 January 1820]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 31.5 x 24 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/lwlpr37728

Notes:

Later state, with altered publication line, of no. 13455 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Titles from text in French and English below image.

Abstract:

"Husband and wife dressing in a bedroom, the tent-shaped bed-curtains forming a background. The woman is thin and has a mole on her face, the man broad, but their deficiencies are similar. She stands (left), about to raise her shift and adjust false posteriors. A false bust, false teeth, and wig, simulating natural curls, are on the table behind her, on which are also the man's wig and an eye in a tumbler of water. Both are bald. He sits (right) in shirt and breeches, about to put on a pair of stockings with false calves of fleece. Both register sour dissatisfaction with themselves and each other."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.

Variant Titles:

Persons in wedlock should be properly matched

Topics:

Artificial eyes.
Baldness.
Bedrooms.
Dentures.
Marriage.
Spouses.
Wigs.

Topics:

Fores, S. W., publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97860707

Language:

English
French

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1820.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1820.
Watermarks (Paper)--Smith & Allnutt--1818.--CtY-LW

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

820.01.20.02+

Orbis Record:

14472567

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37728

OID:

16832885

PID:

digcoll:4788928