File:Labour in Vain - or, Fatty in Distress (BM 1935,0522.1.54).jpg
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[edit]Labour in Vain - or, Fatty in Distress
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After: Robert Dighton
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Labour in Vain - or, Fatty in Distress |
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English: The fat woman of BMSat 6138 struggles to get through posts which frame an opening in a low wooden rail or barrier in St. George's Fields. A beau (right), almost identical with the man who is pulling her through in BMSat 6138, leans on one elbow on the near side of the rail. Behind him, on the farther side of the rail, a fat citizen looks at her through a single eyeglass. She holds a closed fan in her right hand. A spaniel barks at her. In the middle distance (left) two men are laughing together; one carries on his head a large corded trunk. In the distance are the buildings of Saint George's Spa, the name engraved on the façade. A large tree (right) extends its branches across the upper part of the design. In the distance (right) are trees behind a ramshackle paling, extending to the buildings of the 'Spa'. 1784
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| Date | 1783 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1935,0522.1.54 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) This was the 'Dog and Duck', a place of entertainment which by this time was on the down-grade towards the disrepute which led to its suppression. See W. Wroth, 'London Pleasure Gardens', 1896, pp. 271 ff. (reproduction). (Supplementary information) Dighton's original watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 20. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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