The Graces they were culling posies and found young love among the roses [graphic].

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Title: The Graces they were culling posies and found young love among the roses [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created: [between 1817 and 1819?]
Publication Place: London? and England London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kneels. On a mound (right) a cock stands crowing: 'Cock a doodle doo.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
"One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1111.2137.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Watermark: C. Wilmot 1815.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; September 2023.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26.5 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English