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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1817 and 1819?]
- Call Number:
- 817.00.00.24+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kneels. On a mound (right) a cock stands crowing: 'Cock a doodle doo.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1111.2137., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: C. Wilmot 1815.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Older people, Single women, Roses, Putti, Cupids, Monkeys, Dogs, Parrots, and Roosters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Graces they were culling posies and found young love among the roses [graphic].