Illustrations to Love According to the Latest Fashion (1781)
Left: “So, still a maiden?”
Right: “Indeed, Mother was right!”
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Illustrationen zu Chr. Fr. Bretzners Eheprocurator (1784); Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum; Museums./Signatur DChodowiecki AB 3.595–97. Originally in Lauenburger genealogischer Kalender auf das Jahr 1785.
Left: “Capital, capital, Doctor! That is the true course of love!”
Right: “With 28 we will get nowhere.”
Left: “Now that is what I call a marriage at full gallop!”
Right: “And yet I am a good kind of girl, still quite playful.”
Left: “There, my good Captain, take her. Here is the woman!”
Right: “Well, this time I have been completely fooled!”
Left: “What? already betrothed? Betrothed?”
Right: “What sort of storm brings you to Berlin?”
Left: “Ah, cruel lady! Someone else? Who is he? Who?”
Right: “How charming is virtue in the quise of a female angel!”