A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818, artist.
Physical Description:
1 drawing : pen and ink with wash on wove paper ; sheet 31.5 x 24 cm
Notes:
Title from note in artist's hand above image.
Artist name from dealer's description.
Study (or copy) for a print of the same title that was published July 1801 by W. Holland. Not reversed.
John Nixon (ca. 1750 - 1818), city merchant and amateur watercolourist (topography) and designer and maker of satirical prints; honorary exhibitor in RA between 1781 and 1815.
Purchased from Abbott and Holder, July 2016.
Formerly in the collection of Ronald Searle, who acquired it from Andrew Blake in 1954.
Abstract:
An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with such force that it lifts the cat off the ground and bends the candle. Above the fireplace is a broadside entitled: The storm by Mr. Dodd, cease rude boreas balstering railes ... On the table below the window (left) is a bowl labeled "Pease porridge" and a wig on a stand. On the ground at her feet lies a corset, shoes and other garments. Above the bed are boxed and breeches; a man's coat is hung on the back of the chair to the right of the hearth.
Topics:
Bed.
Boxes.
Candlesticks.
Canopy beds.
Cats.
Corsets.
Couples.
Fireplaces.
Flatulence.
Single women.
Sleepwear.
Topics:
Searle, Ronald,--1920---Ownership.
Language:
English
Genre:
Ink drawings--British--19th century.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1801.
Wash drawings--British--19th century.
Format:
Image
Rights:
These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
Call Number:
Drawings
N736
no. 7
Drawings N736 no. 7
Orbis Record:
12873155
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr34666
Citation:
John Nixon, A Patent Extinguisher. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
OID:
16229230
PID:
digcoll:4083660