The maid of Mim [graphic]

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Title: The maid of Mim [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Published / Created: [1809?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Two Londoners in riding-dress, in the parlour of a country inn, gape at a dwarfish, old, and hideous barmaid who enters (on pattens) with a jug of ale. One has been tricked by the other's ballad on 'Nature's child! sweet maid of Mim' to expect a rustic belle."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Date of publication from Grego.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Male costume -- Riding-habit -- Barmaids -- Female costume -- Pattens -- Ale.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 8.8 x 13.9 cm.
Mounted on leaf 31 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10.7 x 16 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1809
Etchings England 1809
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Taverns (Inns)
Subjects: Taverns (Inns) > 18th century
England > 1809
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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