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D5459 - George Murgatroyd Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist - [c1780]-1840
- 3 - Prints by Woodward (Undated) - [c. 1800-1815]

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D5459/3/37
Former Reference	D5459/2/55
Title	Comfort for an Old Maid
Date	[c. 1800-1820]
Description	An 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.
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Artist	Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809)
Artist	Engraver: Roberts
Archive Creator	George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer
Further Information	127 Woodward Del : Etch'd by Roberts
Physical Description	Hand-coloured print. Size 345 x 268 mm.
Copies	A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
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