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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1803]
- Call Number:
- 803.00.00.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A grotesquely ugly old maid, wearing pattens, walks preceded by a small poodle, clipped in an exaggeration of the French manner, and followed by a black foot-boy in livery, who holds on a skewer a lump of 'Cat's Meat'. He carries an umbrella under his arm. Her dress is blown back against her skinny form; her hands are in a large muff, and she wears a fur tippet over a tight bodice defining shoulders, round to deformity. Her profile is hideously sub-human. She walks with a fixed stare, not looking at a half-naked beggar (right) with a patch over one eye and supported on a crutch who holds out his hat for alms. Behind is a blank wall, above which are a church spire and old-fashioned gabled houses."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., For a later state see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, no. 11973., A 1811 edition described in: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. ii, p. 237., and Mounted to 49 x 32 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Beggars, Dogs, Servants, and Single women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A cat in pattens [graphic]