Sorrow's dry or a cure for the heart ache

Sorrow's dry or a cure for the heart ache

Item Information

Title:
Sorrow's dry or a cure for the heart ache
Description:
Four line poem by Dryden at bottom. "Were I not resolv'd against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curst with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again." There is also an open book in the plate displaying these lines: "A smoky house and a scolding wife are the plagues of man's life. Oh what pleasure will abound when my wife is laid in ground!"
Artist:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Name on Item:
Design'd and Pub by T. Rowlandson
Date:
September 12, 1811
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Courtship
Coffins
Dead persons
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 36 x 25 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
No. 1 James St. Adelphi : T. Rowlandson
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 210
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):
Publication statement etched into the plate. Republication, date changed from 1802.
Identifier:
18_03_000166
Barcode:
36666003334725