Francis Goodchild, taking tea with his new wife, pays a drummer representing a group of serenading musicians, as was the custom, from his City house close to the Monument. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth.

  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
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Francis Goodchild, taking tea with his new wife, pays a drummer representing a group of serenading musicians, as was the custom, from his City house close to the Monument. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Francis Goodchild has just married his master's daughter and also become a partner in the business. It was also customary to give away the remains from the table as charity, and so a footman stands at the door and drops food into a poor-woamn's apron. Among the musicians is a butcher holding a bone and a cleaver. The legless beggar in a wooden bowl is a ballad singer

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[London] (Islington) : T. Cook ; [London] (Paternoster Row) : G.G. & J. Robinson

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 20.3 x 28.1 cm.

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The industrious 'prentice out of his time and married to his master's daughter. designed by Wm. Hogarth. engraved by T. Cook. Proverbs ch: XII. ver: 4. The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. A sign is inscribed "West and Goodchild"; a ship is inscribed "Jesse or the happy pair, a new song" and the base of the Monument reads, "in rememberance ... of burning up ye Protestant City by the treachery of the papist faction in... year... of our... Lo[r]d 1666"

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R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, London 1989, 3rd edition, related to 173
British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1877, vol. 3, no. 2954

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Wellcome Collection 38372i

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