"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
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Grego., Six lines of quoted verse below design: "After supper of heaven I dream, but that is fatt pullets & clouted cream ..., Companion print to: The holy friar., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Grego., Six lines of quoted verse below design: "After supper of heaven I dream, but that is fatt pullets & clouted cream ..., Companion print to: The holy friar., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.6 x 17.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probably loss of plate number in upper right corner., and Mounted on leaf 51 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Leaf 59. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
After supper of heaven I dream ...
Description:
Title and printmaker from Grego., Six lines of quoted verse below design: "After supper of heaven I dream, but that is fatt pullets & clouted cream ..., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published 6 May 1807, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 72-3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Companion print to: The holy friar., and On leaf 59 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
