The dutiful grandson [graphic]

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Title: The dutiful grandson [graphic]
Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published March 1st 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: Design in a circle: An old woman and a little boy sit facing each other in a bare and dilapidated room. She sits in profile to the left, in an upholstered armchair, threading a needle to mend clothes; a shirt lies on her patched apron. He sits with hands folded on a ladderback chair. Between and behind them sits a cat
Description: Title from time.
Sheet trimmed on sides within plate mark.
Two lines of text below image: I wish from my heart - one of us three was hang'd - I don't mean you poor Puss - nor I don't mean myself.'
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : oval design 17.3 x 19.5 cm, on sheet 33 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Stipple engravings England London 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Material: etching, roulette & stipple engraving ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Boys
Cats
Chairs
Dwellings
Eyeglasses
Grandparents
Interiors
Poverty
Sewing
Subjects: Boys
Cats
Chairs
Dwellings
Eyeglasses
Grandparents
Interiors
Poverty
Sewing
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

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