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‘The Pleasures of Matrimony’, 1773. ‘The Enrag’d Batchelor, or the Plague of a Single State’, 1760. ‘Batter’d, diseas’d, and past his youthfull Pranks’. ‘The Assembly of Old Batchelors’, 1743. ‘All you expect, and yet you nothing bring’.
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‘The Enrag’d Batchelor, or the Plague of a Single State’, 1760. ‘Batter’d, diseas’d, and past his youthfull Pranks’
‘The Assembly of Old Batchelors’, 1743. ‘All you expect, and yet you nothing bring’.
William Hogarth, ‘The industrious 'prentice married and furnishing his house’, c.1747.
48 North Bar Without, Beverley, Yorkshire, the house where John Courtney was born in 1734.
George Barrett, ‘North Bar Within’, 1780 (detail). Beverley, Yorkshire.
‘The Dinner Locust’, 1826. The accompanying text says: [Visitor] ‘Egad, my Worthy Friend, it seems I have just hit your hour’. [Reluctant host] ‘Yes, you generally do.’
‘The Good House-Wife’, second half of the eighteenth century. The verse reads: ‘Woman, when virtuous, free from Sloth & Vice, Greater by far, than Rubies is her price: Heaven crowns her Labour with a plenteous Store, To feed her Household, and relieve the Poor.’
‘The Welsh Curate’, 1775. ‘Each Faculty and Limb beside, Eyes, Ears, Hands, Feet, are all employ’d. His Wife at Washing – ‘Tis his Lot, To pare the Turnips, watch the Pot’.
George Cruikshank, ‘A widower washing his children’s clothes by candle-light as they sleep’, from J. Wight, Mornings at Bow Street, 1824
Matthew Flinder’s house, Donington, Lincolnshire, c.1914 (now demolished).
Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Comforts of Matrimony. A good Toast’, 1809.