File:A sudden call, or one of the Corporation, summoned from his favorite amusement (BM 1935,0522.8.17).jpg
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A sudden call, or one of the Corporation, summoned from his favorite amusement ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After: George Moutard Woodward (?)
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Title |
A sudden call, or one of the Corporation, summoned from his favorite amusement |
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Description |
English: A 'cit' at table leans back, soup-spoon in hand, with an agonized expression, as Death, a skeleton (right), seizes him by the throat. Death says: "Come Old boy you have play'd an excellent knife & fork, - you cannot grumble, - for you have devoured as much in your time, as would have fed half the Parish poor". The man's death-rattle is: 'Lit-t-le-m-o-re T-ur-t-l-e'. His gouty right leg is supported on a stool. The table-cloth is tucked under his chin, before him is a large tureen, and beside it a plate with (?) extra pieces of turtle. Behind him (left) stands a trembling footman spilling the wine he has just uncorked, looking with dismay at his master: "Bless us what's the matter with the Alderman - I never knew Turtle disagree with him so before - why he has got the Rattles in his Throat!!" 21 October 1799
Hand-coloured etching |
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Date |
1799 date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1935,0522.8.17 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) For the guzzling alderman cf. BMSat 6711. See also BMSat 9614, &c. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-8-17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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