Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

Plate measures 12.5 x 9 inches, preserved within a conservation mount, narrowly trimmed with loss of heading 'Tegg's caricatures No 24' above the image, but imprint intact.

Notes

Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) is perhaps the most well-known of the Georgian caricaturists. In this scene, a comely wench kneels at the foot of a bed, one hand holding the lid of a strong box containing her lover, the corporal, on whom she bestows a kiss before closing the lid. At the window, the head of an enraged older man, presumably her cuckolded husband, peers, scowling, over the window sill.