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The Miser Discovering the Loss of the Mortgage Money

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George Cruikshank
1792-1878

The Miser Discovering the Loss of the Mortgage Money

1842?
7 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches (187 x 225 mm)
Watercolor over graphite, with graphite sketch in the margin, on cream paper, laid down on white paper.
2006.39:7

Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr.

Notes
Forms part of a collection of 20 drawings by Cruikshank to illustrate William Harrison Ainsworth's novel, The miser's daughter.
Drawing for an etched illustration for The miser's daughter, first published in volume I, chapter 9, of Ainsworth's novel as it originally appeared as a serial publication in Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume 1, 1842.
Inscriptions/Markings
Drawing is signed by the artist and inscribed with a title below image in pen and brown ink; numbered "7" in graphite at head of sheet; marginal sketch in graphite; on verso of mount: Vol. I, p. 261.
Summary

Drawing shows Mr. Scarve, the miser, standing with an expression of shock and horror on his face, as he beholds the empty chest, where his money was kept, in a room with a coat and shoes hung on the wall next to the keys; small marginal sketch in graphite of Mr. Scarve's head in margin at left, and a partially erased sketch of his full-length figure in the margin at right.

Associated names
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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