19/2002

Collection

Paintings, Prints and Drawings

Brief description

‘A Most Infernal Bad Egg’, an interior scene with a man and dog at a breakfast table, dust-ground aquatint painted in watercolour by H. Pyall after M. Egerton, published by Geroge Hunt, c.1825.

Title

A MOST INFERNAL BAD EGG

Object name

print
aquatint

Object number

19/2002

Location

On Display

Production person

M. Egerton (artist)
Henry Pyall (engraver)

Production date

c.1825 (published)

Period

Georgian (1714-1837)

Material

paper
card
watercolour

Technique

printed
painted
aquatint

Physical description

Dust- ground aquatint print, painted with watercolour with the title and publication line printed below the image. The print has been trimmed and mounted on card.

Content description

This print depicts a young man, dressed in a brown and yellow striped dressing gown, with an open necked shirt, black neck cloth and breeches, seated in an interior at the breakfast table. The man recoils after cracking an egg in its egg cup and discovering it is rotten, lurching back in his chair, losing one of his slippers, startling his black dog who stands behind the chair and tipping the table upsetting the tea pot, hot water urn and cup and saucer. The table is placed beside a window with curtains and tassled pelmet hung from a brass pole. The table sits on a plain crumb rug on a patterned carpet. The legs of the table and chair are partly visible as is the back rail of the chair.

Dimensions

Height: 27cm
Width: 21cm

Website keywords

seating
tables
serving drink
serving food
floor treatments
window treatments
pets