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The widow's prayer!!
Title
The widow's prayer!! [graphic] / Woodward del. ; etch'd by Rowlandson.
Production
[London] : Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
Publication
[London] : Pubd. June 4th, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand, [4 June 1801]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and drypoint ; plate mark 20 x 25 cm, on sheet 43.6 x 28 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title printed in letterpress below plate line.
Fourteen lines of text printed in letterpress below title: O thou that givest sanction to marriages, and comfortest the widow, prolific hymen! ...
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
A comely widow kneels in profile to the left, facing an upright chair; in her left hand is a handkerchief; her weeds reach from her head to the ground. Her prayer expresses grief, resignation for the loss of three husbands, and a desire for more with, if necessary, a seventh in old age.--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 25, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9791
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 30
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Prayers.
Etchings - England - London - 1801.
Drypoints - England - London - 1801.
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