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Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:: [1803]
Call Number:: Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur...
Description:: Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image.
Subject (Topic):: Bachelors, Cats, Hearing aids, Marriage proposals, Older people, and Single women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An advertisement for a husband! [art original]

Published / Created:: [19th century]
Call Number:: Print00594
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Death (Personification)., Courtship, Marriage proposals, Death's head, Poor persons, Rich people, Money, and Harps
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Avis aux amateurs, pour 1817. La tête de mort en bonne furtune. [graphic]

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...
Description:: Title etched below image.
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]

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1800]
Call Number:: Drawings W87 no. 36 Box D210
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A young male suitor kneels to offer a marriage proposal to an old maid sitting in a chair cooling herself with a fan
Description:: Title from contemporary pen and ink inscription on verso.
Subject (Topic):: Marriage proposals, Dandies, Single women, and Fans (Accessories)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Opposite motives [art original].

Published / Created:: [1829]
Call Number:: 829.00.00.94
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Tegg
Subject (Topic):: Devil and Marriage proposals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Popping the question to a devilish fine creature [graphic].

Creator:: Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1765 and 1775]
Call Number:: 765.00.00.88+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A Dutch interior with two Puritan men asking the parents of Saartje to marry her to Reinier Adriaansz. On the left in the background a young girl eavesdrops at the door. On the wall is a portrait of a girl and a seascape with two sailing vessels. On ...
Alternative Title:: Marriage consultation
Description:: Title engraved below image, with quotation on either side: Well, quoath her parents, be it so: Sukey was ready months ago. Had but an husband offer'd: Eighteen my friends, a ticklish time: Let Johnny take her in her prime ... The very thought my rage...
Publisher:: Printed for Robt Sayer, Print & Map Seller, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):: Couples, Marriage proposals, Parents, and Puritans
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The parents scheme, or, Marriage consultation [graphic]