publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 26, 1743.
Call Number:
743.03.26.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an elegant room, eleven old women with caricatured faces sit in a semi-circle. A twelfth woman is standing behind the chair of the woman on extreme left and whispers in her ear. A little lapdog stands in the front of the women yapping at them. In the background, the pediment of the door in the center of the wall is decorated with a bust of a woman in contemporary dress, with a crescent in her hair. The walls are hung with pictures, including winged Time and Cupid
Description:
Title from caption below image., 'Price 6d.'--Following imprint., Six lines of verse in three columns below title: To-morrow and her works defy, lay hold upon the present hour ... Dryden., A companion print to: The assembly of old batchelors., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 25 x 29 cm.
Title from item., Publication date inferred from The assembly of old maids, etched by Booth after Boitard, and published March 1743., 'Price six pence, colour'd one shilling'--Lower left corner., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: What odd sort of commical creatures are here? ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Women: old maids -- Furnishings: curtains., Watermark: Fleur-de-lis., and Window mounted to 26 x 36 cm.
