Watercolor drawing of a grotesque old woman, with lines from Thomas Cambell’s poem “Pleasures of Hope” (1799) written in ink below: The world was sad, The garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh’d ’till woman smil’d.
On the verso a cropped impression of Plate 21, from the Miseries of London, captioned with a letterpress text cut from the work: See BMSat 10865: At the corner of Chancery Lane a fashionably dressed man and a scavenger have collided violently: both register pain and anger. Hackney coachmen on a stand facing the end of the street watch with amusement. A man behind (left) chases his hat, 1 March 1807.
- Title: [Caricature of a grotesque old woman] [art original].
- Production: [England], [not before 1818]
Drawings Un58 no. 99 Box D166
Acquired September 2023