"A man springing out of his bed in a garret with a candle and finding a black cat hissing at him."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Poor Paddy and the black cat
Description:
Title etched above image., Number 257 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '257' in lower left corner., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Some ghosting of text occurs near the bottom of the plate., Three columns of verse below image: Then gently stepping from his bed, and peeping round, o'erwhelm'd with dread! Behind the door, low couch'd he spies, A huge black cat with saucer eyes! ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 24th Jany. 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
