84/1998
Collection
Paintings, Prints and Drawings
Brief description
‘Fishing- with its consequences’, two men in a dining room interior, hand-coloured aquatint, engraved by G. Hunt after M. Egerton and published by Thomas McClean in London, 1827.
Title
FISHING - WITH ITS CONSEQUENCES
Object name
print
aquatint
aquatint
Object number
84/1998
Production person
M. Egerton (artist)
George Hunt (engraver)
Thomas McLean (publisher)
George Hunt (engraver)
Thomas McLean (publisher)
Production date
1827 (published)
Production place
London (published)
Period
Georgian (1714-1837)
Material
paper
watercolour
watercolour
Technique
printed
aquatint
aquatint
Physical description
Hand-coloured aquatint print with publication line, title and poem printed below. It has been trimmed to the plate mark.
Content description
This satirical print is a humourous warning to those 'fishing for compliments'. It depicts two gentlemen in a dining room interior. The man on the left is an clergyman who stands with his chest puffed out with his hands behind his back holding his sermon, he is balding and has a red nose. The young man who stands to the right of him wears a blue dress coat, yellow waistcoat and fawn trousers.
They stand in a room decorated with grey and fawn coloured striped wallpaper with a pink patterned wallpaper fillet around the top and bottom with two matching fabric bell pulls either side of the chimney breast. There is a white fire surround with a blue undulating pattern which runs across the mantel and vertical stretches and a gilt framed overmantel. The central fireplace has a cast iron hob grate and curved green and yellow coloured fender with a pair of fire tongs to the left and shovel to the right of the hearth, and a central fire poker leaning against the grate. There is a blue upholstered sofa to the left of the picture, with cylindrical bolster and a sabre legged chair to the right of the scene. The tripod table which stands next to the chair is covered with a green cloth with yellow trim on top of which are two silver candlesticks with lit candles. The fitted carpet has a salmon-pink background with a geometric pattern and there is also a fringed matching hearth rug in front of the fireplace.
They stand in a room decorated with grey and fawn coloured striped wallpaper with a pink patterned wallpaper fillet around the top and bottom with two matching fabric bell pulls either side of the chimney breast. There is a white fire surround with a blue undulating pattern which runs across the mantel and vertical stretches and a gilt framed overmantel. The central fireplace has a cast iron hob grate and curved green and yellow coloured fender with a pair of fire tongs to the left and shovel to the right of the hearth, and a central fire poker leaning against the grate. There is a blue upholstered sofa to the left of the picture, with cylindrical bolster and a sabre legged chair to the right of the scene. The tripod table which stands next to the chair is covered with a green cloth with yellow trim on top of which are two silver candlesticks with lit candles. The fitted carpet has a salmon-pink background with a geometric pattern and there is also a fringed matching hearth rug in front of the fireplace.
Dimensions
Height: 19.6cm
Width: 21cm
Width: 21cm
Website keywords
seating
tables
floor treatments
candle and rush lighting
mirrors
wall treatments
fire tools
fireplaces
tables
floor treatments
candle and rush lighting
mirrors
wall treatments
fire tools
fireplaces
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