A Cure for a A Smoky Chimney!!
Print
1/1/1808
1/1/1808
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Two figure, a man and a woman, confront each other within a bourgeois-looking domestic interior. The woman, who is the householder, is dressed in a large cap, spectacles and a gown which would have been out of fashion by the date of the print's publication, suggesting that she is a middle-class and middle-aged matron. She berates the man, dressed in a respectable suit, as an 'Irish impostor' for taking a fee of two guineas to clear out the smoking chimney. The chimney itself is visibly still smoking, billowing smoke out from the fireplace into the room.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | A Cure for a A Smoky Chimney!! (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured etching |
| Brief description | Satirical print, 'A Cure for a A Smoky Chimney!!' after George Moutard Woodward, London 1808 |
| Physical description | Within a bourgeois domestic interior, a woman dressed in old-fashioned garments confronts a man; the substance of the speech bubbles above their heads indicates that she is berating him for having failed to unblock her chimney. The chimney itself is billowing smoke into the room from the fireplace on the far left. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by John Jones |
| Object history | Object originally bound in a guard-book containing one hundred and fifteen caricatures by T. Rowlandson, W. Heath, J. Gillray, R. Dighton, G. Cruikshank and others |
| Summary | Two figure, a man and a woman, confront each other within a bourgeois-looking domestic interior. The woman, who is the householder, is dressed in a large cap, spectacles and a gown which would have been out of fashion by the date of the print's publication, suggesting that she is a middle-class and middle-aged matron. She berates the man, dressed in a respectable suit, as an 'Irish impostor' for taking a fee of two guineas to clear out the smoking chimney. The chimney itself is visibly still smoking, billowing smoke out from the fireplace into the room. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1232:22-1882 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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