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Summary
A panegyric on the happiness and "Pleasures of the Married State", published in London ca. 1780. A father teaches his son reading, while his wife holds their daughter. A painting of Christ changing water into wine at the wedding-feast of Cana is shown on the wall, while an outdoors hat and equipment for battledore/shuttlecock (i.e. the precursor to badminton) are on the floor.
Poem in image:
- A Wife so chaste, so tender, and so kind,
- So lovely in her Person and her mind;
- The gentle smiling Girl, the pratling Boy,
- The Father's comfort and the Mother's joy:
- Are blessed Guardians 'gainst all human woes,
- Unknown to idle Rakes, to Fops, and Beaus;
- These are the Pleasures of the Social state,
- View this, you Batchelors, and mourn your fate.
For a caricature from the same period expressing the opposite point of view, see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_plaisir_du_m%C3%A8nage_by_James_Gillray.jpg" title="File:Les plaisir du mènage by James Gillray.jpg">File:Les plaisir du mènage by James Gillray.jpg</a>
Bibliographic information found on the LoC site:
TITLE: The pleasures of the married state / W. Proud del. et sculp.
CALL NUMBER: PC 2 - Pleasures of the married state (A size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-59621 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Print shows a family gathering around a table, the husband, seated, is instructing a son who stands next to him with an open book, and the wife, seated opposite, holds an infant daughter, the children mimic the parent's costume; in the background is a painting of Jesus changing water to wine during the wedding feast. Includes eight lines of verse promoting marriage.
MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: London : Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & Jno. Smith in Cheapside, [between 1770 and 1789]
NOTES: Title from item. Forms part of: British Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
SUBJECTS:
- Marriage--England--1770-1790.
- Families--England--1770-1790.
- Domestic life--England--1770-1790.
FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1770-1790. Engravings British 1770-1790.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b07363 <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b07363">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b07363</a>
CARD #: 2003675451
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15:27, 9 January 2017 | No thumbnail | (0 bytes) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>A panegyric on the happiness and "Pleasures of the Married State", published in London ca. 1780. A father teaches his son reading, while his wife holds their daughter. A painting of Christ changing water into wine at the wedding-feast of Cana is shown on the wall, while an outdoors hat and equipment for battledore/shuttlecock (i.e. the precursor to badminton) are on the floor. </p> <p>Poem in image: </p> <dl> <dd>A Wife so chaste, so tender, and so kind,</dd> <dd>So lovely in her Person and her mind;</dd> <dd>The gentle smiling Girl, the pratling Boy,</dd> <dd>The Father's comfort and the Mother's joy:</dd> <dd>Are blessed Guardians 'gainst all human woes,</dd> <dd>Unknown to idle Rakes, to Fops, and Beaus;</dd> <dd>These are the Pleasures of the Social state,</dd> <dd>View this, you Batchelors, and mourn your fate.</dd> </dl> <p>For a caricature from the same period expressing the opposite point of view, see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_plaisir_du_m%C3%A8nage_by_James_Gillray.jpg" title="File:Les plaisir du mènage by James Gillray.jpg">File:Les plaisir du mènage by James Gillray.jpg</a> </p> <hr> <p>Bibliographic information found on the LoC site: </p> <p>TITLE: The pleasures of the married state / W. Proud del. et sculp. </p> <p>CALL NUMBER: PC 2 - Pleasures of the married state (A size) [P&P] </p> <p>REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-59621 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication. </p> <p>SUMMARY: Print shows a family gathering around a table, the husband, seated, is instructing a son who stands next to him with an open book, and the wife, seated opposite, holds an infant daughter, the children mimic the parent's costume; in the background is a painting of Jesus changing water to wine during the wedding feast. Includes eight lines of verse promoting marriage. </p> <p>MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving. </p> <p>CREATED/PUBLISHED: London : Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & Jno. Smith in Cheapside, [between 1770 and 1789] </p> <p>NOTES: Title from item. Forms part of: British Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress). </p> <p>SUBJECTS: </p> <ul> <li>Marriage--England--1770-1790.</li> <li>Families--England--1770-1790.</li> <li>Domestic life--England--1770-1790.</li> </ul> <p>FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1770-1790. Engravings British 1770-1790. </p> <p>REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA </p> <p>DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b07363 <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b07363">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b07363</a> </p> <p>CARD #: 2003675451 </p> |
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