Oud en Versleten (The Old Couple)

Josef Israëls

1873

  • Titles Oud en Versleten (The Old Couple) (Proper)@Peasant Interior (Former title)
  • Artist Josef Israëls, Netherlands, 1824 - 1911
  • Medium etching
  • Dimensions sheet: 9 5/16 × 12 in. (23.7 × 30.5 cm) image: 3 3/4 × 5 5/8 in. (9.5 × 14.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Samuel M. Jacobs, 1967.13
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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Scene of a farmhouse with several trees and miscellanious farm equipment. A figure with a hat sits in the bottom right corner with a writing utensil and notebook.
In a crowded room, a young boy sits on a table laughing towards a man with his back towards the viewer. The man plays cards with a young boy who sits across him at the table.
A figure sits on the front of a ship with his back toward the viewer. Various text, including the title, is printed across the composition.
Scene of King George III (whose face is hidden behind a column) kicking the bottom of a lord, pulling his hair, and raising his scepter as if to fell a blow. Other lords have tumbled into a pile trying to escape the king's violent response to their proposal of a bill of Catholic emancipation, which sought to remove legal tests and other restrictions on Catholics imposed since the reign of Henry VIII.