The sweet little girl that I love [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[not before 4 June 1808]eng"A tall, thin, elderly military officer, ugly but elegant, stoops to embrace a fat woman, short and hideous. She wears a countrified straw bonnet, apron, and high pattens, but is very decolletee. There is a rustic background with a cottage (right). He says, the words etched across the upper part of the design: My Friends all declare that my time is mispent [sic] While in rural Contentment I rove, I ask no more Wealth than Dame Fortune has sent And the sweet little Girl that I love. The rose on her cheeks my delight She's soft as the down, the down of the dove No Lilly was ever so fair As the sweet little girl that I love!"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Later state; imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate.Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. June 4, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11138 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.Plate numbered "167" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.Also issued separately.Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 88.1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.7 x 24.5 cm, on sheet 36 x 25.2 cm.Watermark: C. Wilmott 1819.Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.