Dinners drest in the neatest manner

Dinners drest in the neatest manner

Item Information

Title:
Dinners drest in the neatest manner
Description:
The preparations of the cook in question are not calculated to increase the appetite of the observant epicure ; the chef is hideous, old, rheumy, slovenly, and diseased ; he is kneading the paste with his objectionable hands, his snuffbox is on the board by his side ; while a blowsy and uncombed slattern is reaching down a pie-dish, in which the rats have been revelling ; the bold depredators are scampering off no farther than the next dish. Companion to "Distillers looking into their own business."
Artist:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Name on Item:
Rowlandson Del.
Date:
October 1811
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:
The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 3
Subjects:
Bodily functions
Baking
Cooks
Women domestics
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
111 Cheapside, London : T. Tegg
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Grego, II, 115, 215
On item: 112
Notes (acquisition):
The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
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):
Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 3," the third volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
Identifier:
18_03_000700
Barcode:
36666003272321