The maid of Mim [graphic]

Description

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.
Numbered in ms. upper edge of sheet: 47.
Mounted to sheet 22 x 16 cm.
Provenance: Seven Gables; September 1968; Sotheby's Lot 238 [Car. II] to Seven Gables; July 2, 1968.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10.7 x 16 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English