A New Speaker - The Wedding Night by Thomas Rowlandson

Two-panel 1789 pen and ink caricature: a wigged speaker addresses a crowd, and below, figures attend a bedchamber scene.

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This 1789 print by Thomas Rowlandson, titled A New Speaker - The Wedding Night, is a two-panel etching in pen and ink. The upper panel shows a wigged speaker at a table amid a crowded, jeering assembly, with speech balloon text and a list of taxes; the lower panel shows a bedchamber scene with figures pouring from a bowl beside a curtained bed.

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1789

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