[A maiden aunt smelling fire] [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, publisher[1 May 1806]eng"A grotesque old maid having woken at night, the open door of her bedroom behind at left, approaching the foot of a staircase with a candle, only partly dressed and with her bosom hanging outside her dress, led on by a cat; above at left, the young niece appearing at her own bedroom door as if only just awake, her lover escaping in his nightshirt up the stairs at right; at the foot of the stairs, a paper lettered 'Old maids are doomed to lead apes in hell'."--British Museum online catalogueTitle, printmaker and imprint from Grego.Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.