Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The young maid's prayer.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 20/Normal/Prints/Titles V-Z GA 2014.00562
Identifier
ark:/88435/x059cg42d
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1801/06/04.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1801
Extent
1 item ; sheet 42.6 x 24.6 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 30 (calls it "The Maiden's Prayer")
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Petition addressed to "O thou divine little Cupid", while the fair votary, who is still a susceptible and romantic boarding-school miss, is recounting her various love affairs, and praying the rosy deity to bless and make fortunate her several concealed (and imaginary) passions for such male creatures as she has chanced to encounter in the daily routine of school life.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Woodward del.".
Unsigned by Rowlandson.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Prayer—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Schoolgirls—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Infatuation—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Cupid (Roman deity)—Caricatures and cartoons
Gods, Roman—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f03dca47-7b39-4398-b042-7580290f1af1/manifest