Nobody coming to marry me [graphic].

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Title: Nobody coming to marry me [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 August 1806]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Augt. 1, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A young woman registers grief outside a cottage (right), in which a woman is spinning. She is watched by two fashionably dressed passers-by. The verses end: 'I am sure it is not my fault, That I must die an old Maid.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Companion print to: No rest in the grave, or, The second appearance of Miss Bailey's ghost
One line of text above design: The music publish'd by Skillern & Challoner, 25 Greek Street, Soho.
Two lines of text directly below title: (Intended as a companion to the second appearance of Miss Bailey's Ghost, just publish'd) sung by Mr. Jordan, with unbounded applause at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Twenty lines of verse arranged in three columns in lower portion of plate: Last night the dogs did bark, I went to the window to see...
Plate numbered '437' in the lower left corner.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 22.4 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 24 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1806
Etchings England London 1806
Engravings England London 1806
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dwellings
Spinning apparatus
Single women
Birdcages
Subjects: Dwellings
Spinning apparatus
Single women
Birdcages
England > 1806
England > London > 1806

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