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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Mrs. Smouch longing for piggy / Rowlandson invt.

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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827

Mrs. Smouch longing for piggy / Rowlandson invt.

[London? : s.n., 181-?
etching, hand colored
image: 269 x 202 mm; plate mark: 350 x 249 mm; sheet: 361 x 253 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.741
Notes
A different cut of the same design issued by Thomas Tegg in 1813 with the title: Humours of Houndsditch, or Mrs Shevi in a longing condition. Cf. BM Satires12146 and J. Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. ii, p. 254.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows a Jewish woman leaning over the wooden barrier across the street doorway to kiss a piglet which her husband holds out to her. The man smiles and puts his arm around her shoulder as her right breast falls into view from her low-cut gown. He is bearded, with a long coat, with a bag slung from his arm, showing that he deals in old clothes. A sow (right) looks up anxiously at the piglet. A comely young woman wearing a necklace and ear-rings leans over Mrs. Smouch, admiring the pig. From an adjacent window or doorway leans an elderly Jewish man, bald and bearded, who registers outraged horror.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department