Call Number: 807.03.12.01 - Yale University Library Search Results

Published / Created:: [12 March 1807]
Call Number:: 807.03.12.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
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., and Watermark: E & P. Countermark: 1804.
Publisher:: Published March 12, 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Single women, Cats, and Prayer
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > 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]