Piercy Roberts
George Moutard Woodward
British, b.c. 1760, d.1809 (After)
Thomas Tegg
b.1776, d.1846 (Publisher)
Celia Retiring
- 1800-1806
- Etching
- Sir Joseph Kinsey bequest
- 336 x 247mm
- 74/10
Tags: beds (furniture), candles, caricatures, chairs (furniture forms), elderly, furniture, hair, people (agents), satire (artistic device), servants, text (layout feature), ugliness, women (female humans)
The text reads:
Molly mind what I say to you – lay my wig on the top of
the drawers take care of my bosom and don’t rumple it –
lay my eye in the dressing box and the row of teeth by
the side of it – and call in again for my eye-brows –
lay every-thing in such a manner that I may easily
find them in the morning as I wish to be made up
by twelve precisely – in order to meet my Lord
Ban-dash.
Compare British Museum, Registration number: 1872,1012.5084