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Samuel Knight
When Dido heard Eneas could not come : she wept in silence and was di-do dum!
hand-colored etching
148 x 103 mm
Peel 2096
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printed below image, left: A E fecit.
Does not appear in George, M.D. Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Summary:
A sad-looking older woman sits in a high-backed chair with her hands folded in her lap, beside a spinning wheel. Another woman stands solemnly behind the chair in a supportive posture. A black and white cat regards them from the lower right foreground.
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