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Author/Creator:Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker.
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Title:A city taylor's wife dressing for the Pantheon [graphic] / Martin pinxt. ; Wilson sculp.
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Publication:[London] : Publish'd 5th Feby. 1772 by Heny. Parker at No. 82 in Cornhill, London, [5 February 1772]
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Physical Description:1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark 35.1 x 25 cm, on sheet 37.8 x 28 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 772.02.05.02.1+
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Provenance:Samuel Gedge; January 2020.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Medium:laid paper.
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Notes:Title engraved below image.
Later state, with plate reworked to include an altered publication line and changes to the design. For an earlier state published by William Humphrey that has an advertisement placard present on the back wall among other differences, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 772.02.05.02+.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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Summary:A fashionably dressed woman sitting behind a table is taking a necklace out of a box; she has three large black spots on her face. She looks with disdain at her enraged husband in old-fashioned clothes and a nightcap, sitting next to her, his fists clenched and despair on his face. In his lap lies a pair of breeches he is sewing; above on the wall of their meagre abode hangs a small stag's head with antlers.
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Variant and related titles:City tailor's wife dressing for the Pantheon
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Subjects:Adultery.
Couples.
Jewelry boxes.
Scissors & shears.
Sewing equipment & supplies.
Sexually transmitted diseases.
Tailors.
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Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1772.
Mezzotints--England--London--1772.
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Also listed under:Martin, Elias, 1739-1818, artist.
Parker, Henry, 1725-1809, publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14880117