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Sorrow's dry or a cure for the heart ache
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Four line poem by Dryden at bottom. "Were I not resolv'd against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curst with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again." There is also an open book in the plate displaying these lines: "A smoky house and a scolding wife are the plagues of man's life. Oh what pleasure will abound when my wife is laid in ground!"
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Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors, a popular artist in the Regency period in England.
Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social and political satires, as well as large number of illustrations for novels, humorous books, and topographical works. Like other caricaturists of his age such as James Gillray, his caricatures are often robust or bawdy. Rowlandson also produced highly explicit erotica for a private clientele; this was never published publicly at the time and is now only found in a small number of collections. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte.
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