Interested love [graphic]

Description

Title: Interested love [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [3 September 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. September 3, 1793, by Will. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
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 ... .
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.8 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 36 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cats
Clergy
Single women
Courtship
Marriage proposals
Subjects: Cats
Clergy
Single women
Courtship
Marriage proposals
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

Access: Public
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