Russian nuptials, or, The lock'd jaw and frost-bitten nose [print] : sung with unbounded applause by Mr. Fawcett, at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, in the new grand melo-dramatic opera, called "The Exile," written by John Frederick Reynolds, Esq. / Cruikshank del.

Accession number:

PML 146731, leaf 38

Published:

London : Publish'd Dec. 1, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, [1808

Description:

1 print : etching ; image: 165 x 214 mm; plate mark: 185 x 229 mm; sheet: 292 x 228 mm

Credit:

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes:

Title from text printed in letterpress below image.
Text in letterpress immediately following title: (The Music sold by Messrs. Goulding and Co. New Bond Street.).
Three columns of verse in letterpress near lower portion of sheet: A youth took a wife, for joy or for strife ... As round and as plump as a snow-ball.
Plate numbered in upper left corner: 502.
Library's copy mounted on leaf 55 of a bound volume containing various works by George, Isaac, and Robert Cruikshank; including published suites of prints, individually published plates and caricatures, and miscellaneous illustration and reproductions removed from published works.
Library has another copy of this etching mounted on leaf 45 of the same volume; closely cropped and trimmed with loss of text.

Variant Title:

Lock'd jaw and frost-bitten nose

Provenance:

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary:

Caricature of a man and wife, both in fur hoods, standing outside a small hut in a snow scene. She threatens him with her fists. In the background a reindeer draws a sleigh.

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