Miss Wrinkle as sung by Miss Tyrer, with unbounded applause, at the Thatre Royal, Covent Garden in the popular farce or Arbitration, or, Free & easy / [graphic]

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Title: Miss Wrinkle as sung by Miss Tyrer, with unbounded applause, at the Thatre Royal, Covent Garden in the popular farce or Arbitration, or, Free & easy / [graphic]
Contributor: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist.
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 March 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published March 12, 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "Heading to engraved verses ... An elderly spinster kneels on the floor in a rough attic room; beside her is an open book: 'Sorrows of Werter' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7054, &c.]. A man looks in through the thatch that forms the only roof; he overhears her praying for a husband, and offers himself: '"Will a Thatcher do for ye, Miss Wrinkle", quoth he, "Lord thy will be done! I'm content" replied she.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Eighteen lines of verse below title: In a village there liv'd an old maid, who was ne'er known for trifles to fret ...
Plate numbered '459' in lower right corner.
Watermark: E & P. Countermark: 1804.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.6 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 29 x 24 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 807.03.12.01

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Engravings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) E & P 1804
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Single women
Cats
Prayer
Subjects: Single women
Cats
Prayer
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
E & P > 1804

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 8628580
Object ID (OID): 16033913