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G. M. Woodward
approximately 1760-1809
Splendid Poverty!!
undated
pen and ink over graphite, on paper.
Peel 1833
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Pen and ink drawing evidently created for or after a caricature print.
Inscription:
Signed at bottom left: Woodward delin.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary:
Drawing of a man and his wife, seated side by side, the man has a jug at his elbow and a glass in one hand as he gestures towards his wife, at right, who is busy sewing a pair of breeches. The man is saying: Well here be I - not over rich to be sure, but what / of that, - Landlord has got his rent - children are / at school, - heres a good jug of home brew'd, - and / there sits my wife, mending my breeches! Rabbit it / if I bent as happy as a prince!
Associated names:
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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