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1. The assembly of old maids [graphic]
- Creator:
- Booth, Thomas, active1743-1746, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 26, 1743.
- Call Number:
- 743.03.26.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an elegant room, eleven old women with caricatured faces sit in a semi-circle. A twelfth woman is standing behind the chair of the woman on extreme left and whispers in her ear. A little lapdog stands in the front of the women yapping at them. In the background, the pediment of the door in the center of the wall is decorated with a bust of a woman in contemporary dress, with a crescent in her hair. The walls are hung with pictures, including winged Time and Cupid
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., 'Price 6d.'--Following imprint., Six lines of verse in three columns below title: To-morrow and her works defy, lay hold upon the present hour ... Dryden., A companion print to: The assembly of old batchelors., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 25 x 29 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Allegories, Dogs, Draperies, and Single women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The assembly of old maids [graphic]