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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D5459/3/37
Former ReferenceD5459/2/55
TitleComfort for an Old Maid
Date[c. 1800-1820]
DescriptionAn old woman in conversation with her Yorkshire servant. She is seated and wears a veil and a huge fur tippet and muff. She asks him:
"John - how do you like my fashionable Muff and Tippett - don't you think I look charmingly today".
The footman, wearing a livery with shoulder-knots, replies:
"Why Ma'am I be but a Sarvant and Sarvitude they say be no inheritance - but as a Yorkshire-man I likes to speak my mind - then I do think for all the world that you look like a Hog in Armour - and I think it is a sheame an Old Woman - like you - should be running after the Men at your time of life - you had better think of summat else for you look Nation sickly that's for sartain".
Available on CD 165.
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
ArtistWoodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809)
Engraver: Roberts
Archive CreatorGeorge Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer
Further Information127

Woodward Del : Etch'd by Roberts
Physical DescriptionHand-coloured print. Size 345 x 268 mm.
CopiesA digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
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