Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756 - 1827)
Title: "After Sweet Meat Comes Sour Sauce, Or Corporal Casey got into the wrong box," 30 Nov 1810
Medium: Original Etching with original hand colouring, Rowlandson's lifetime printing; Paper watermarked 'ITII 1818'
Signature: Signed by the Artist on the plate, as to be expected from the period
Inscription Content: Lettered with title, artist's name and publishing details: 'Rowlandson Del. / Price one Shilling Coloured / Tegg's Caricatures No 24 / Pubd Novr 30 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside'
Size: 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches and archivally-matted to 20 x 15 inches; [Image 230 x 320 mm, Plate 245 x 360 mm, Sheet 260 x 415 mm]
Printer/Publisher: Thomas Tegg, c. 1818; Thomas Tegg (1776-1845) was a British bookseller, printseller, and publisher, trading most notably from a printworks and shop in Cheapside. His best remembered series are Tegg's Carricatures, the Caricature Magazine, the London Encyclopaedia, and the immensely popular Whole Life of Nelson.
Reference: M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 194 f.
Notes: A hand-coloured print of a bedroom scene in which a woman opens a trunk to kiss her lover, who wears army uniform, who is hiding inside. She kneels before the trunk and has accidentally kicked over a chamber pot. From her waist hangs the key to the trunk. Next to the trunk stands a bottle of 'Eau de Vie' and a mouse in a cage. In the background is a window through which a jealous husband glares at the couple. Inscribed in the plate: Tegg's Caricatures No 24 / Rowlandson Del / Pubd Novr 30 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside / Price Pne shilling coloured.