G. F. W. Grossmann, Nicht mehr als sechs Schüsseln. Familiengemälde in fünf Aufzügen (1777).
Left: Act 1, scene 3: “Did I really knock one of your teeth out?”
Center: Act 1, scene 7: “Only six courses!”
Right: Act 1, scene 10: “My regards, Herr Roturier.”
(All illustrations: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki; Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum; Museums./Signatur DChodowiecki AB 3.443.)
Left: Act 1, scene 11: “So, you wanted — to be one German man’s German wife, ‘thou and thou’?”
Center: Act 2, scene 3: ” — here is my contract.”
Right: Act 2, scene 3: “Have a look, good Sir: there they all hang, all the esteemed gentlemen large and small.”
Left: Act 2, scene 7: “Allow me to introduce to you Baron von Wilsdorf — as your future spouse.”
Center: Act 3, scene 6: “Anger is a dangerous intoxication.”
Right: Act 3, scene 15: “What you as a courtier must do, I myself, as a judge, cannot do.”
Left: Act 4, scene 2: “There, take her with you.”
Center: Act 4, scene 6: “You pathetic person! Me? — You wanted to bribe me?”
Right: Act 4, scene 12: “Go! It will be fine!”