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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) |
| Engraver: Roberts |
| Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
| Further Information | 127
Woodward Del : Etch'd by Roberts |
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| 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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