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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/3/10 |
| Former Reference | D5459/2/15 |
| Title | A Whimsical Will!! |
| Date | [1 Oct 1807] |
| Description | The reading of a will. The lawyer sits in an armchair in the left. The deceased's wife flirts with his secretary. She has been left his fortune, and the secretary has been left his wife. The butcher, a very fat man wearing an apron, has been 'left' the advice to cut his steak thicker. Behind the butcher sits the butler, a dishevelled and drunk man, who has been left money for his sobriety. To his doctor he leaves all the medicines he has been prescribed and to his foppishly dressed nephew he leaves nothing, much to his disgust.
Available on CD 164. |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
| Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
| Further Information | 280
Woodward delt
by Thomas Tegg 111 Cheapside
Price One Shill Color'd
Date based on Walpole 807.10.1.3.1.
Dialogue in image not transcribed. |
| Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 360 x 250 mm. |
| Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
| Publication Note | BM Sat 11148 |
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