Comfort for an Old Maid
Print
ca. 1800 (Published)
ca. 1800 (Published)
| Artist/Maker |
A coloured print of an elderly lady addressing a footman. The lady is sitting to the right of the image with an oversized hand muff and the footman stands facing her to the right of the image.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Title | Comfort for an Old Maid (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Etching, coloured by hand |
| Brief description | Print, 'Comfort for an Old Maid' by Piercy Roberts after George 'Moutard' Woodward |
| Physical description | A coloured print of an elderly lady addressing a footman. The lady is sitting to the right of the image with an oversized hand muff and the footman stands facing her to the right of the image. |
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| Marks and inscriptions |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by John Jones |
| Object history | Object originally bound in a guard-book containing one hundred and fifteen caricatures by T. Rowlandson, W. Heath, J. Gillray, R. Dighton, G. Cruikshank and others |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | The Grotesque Factor Malaga: Museo Picasso, 2012. ISBN: 9788494024917. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1232:88-1882 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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