[Caricature of a grotesque old woman] [art original].

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Description

Title: [Caricature of a grotesque old woman] [art original].
Published / Created: [not before 1818]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Watercolor drawing of a grotesque old woman, with lines from Thomas Cambell's poem "Pleasures of Hope" (1799) written in ink below: The world was sad, The garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd 'till woman smil'd.
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Drawn on paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Hill, 1818." Probably a leaf from an album.
On the verso a cropped impression of Plate 21, from the Miseries of London, captioned with a letterpress text cut from the work: See BMSat 10865: At the corner of Chancery Lane a fashionably dressed man and a scavenger have collided violently: both register pain and anger. Hackney coachmen on a stand facing the end of the street watch with amusement. A man behind (left) chases his hat, 1 March 1807.
Provenance: Purchased from Ken Spelman Rare Books, September 2023.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 23 x 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English