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The Quiet Husband   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John June

After: John Collet
Published by: John Smith of Cheapside
Published by: Robert Sayer
Title
The Quiet Husband
Description
English: A satire on marriage and indolent clergy set in a domestic interior. The husband, a portly middle-aged clergyman, is fast asleep with a pipe in his hand and a glass, a large jug and a snuff-box on the table beside him; his walking stick rests against the wall. His pretty young wife is seated on the other side of the table and is caressed by a young offier. Her small daughter sits beside her playing with a doll dressed as a soldier and ignoring a smaller doll dressed as a parson which she has pushed aside. The child sits on a book lettered "On ye Lawfulness of Pluralities"; two other books lie beside another pitcher, one of which is lettered, "The first Lesson for the Evening Service"; on the floor beside the parson is a book of "Select Sermons", open at "Discourse the 1st On the Duty of Watchfulness". A dog lies asleep beside the parson and in front of the fire; on the mantelpiece are more pipes, lemons, a punch bowl, a bottle labelled "Brandy". Behind is a screen over which the officer has thrown his greatcoat and on which he has hung his hat; a large bird, released from a cage that hangs over the table, pecks at the cockade on the hat. On the left, a violin hangs on the wall, and a cupboad is open to show two more books and a wine bottle. 20 November 1768
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Date 1768
date QS:P571,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 257 millimetres
Width: 365 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1859,1008.337
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1859-1008-337
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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