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 book III, chapter 4, of Ainsworth's novel as it originally appeared as a serial publication in Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume II, 1842.
Drawing is signed by the artist and inscribed with a title below image in pen and brown ink; numbered "16" at head of sheet in graphite, annotated in graphite, "Painted on the pannel", in the margin at right; on verso of mount: Vol. III, p. 80.
Drawing shows Hilda reading the marriage contract to her miserly father, who sits near the meagre fire, wrapped in blankets, an expression of anger on his face, drapery behind and a table to the left, chests on the floor.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.