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- Creator:
- Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 September 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.09.03.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A clergy man with a bulbous nose and large wig (right) kneels before an elderly, well-dressed woman (left) who sits in a chair with a cat on her lap. She is very thin, with wrinkled face and pursed lips and wears multiple strands of pearls around her neck and wrist. Her cat hisses at her suitor
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Eight lines of verse, signed W.H., below title: Hear me, angelic object of my love ... ., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. September 3, 1793, by Will. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Clergy, Single women, Courtship, and Marriage proposals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Interested love [graphic]
