Wellcome Collection
An unmarried woman approaching middle age smiles seductively at the viewer as inwardly she considers her future with foreboding. Engraving by G. Kellaway, 1828, after T. Stewardson.
Thomas Stewardson
Lettering: The sigh. Stewardson pinxt. G. Kellaway sc.t. Lettering continues: "Love will soon be growing old, Heigho! Heigho! / Half his time's already told, Heigho! Heigho! / When he's dead and buried too / What shall we poor maidens do? / I can't tell, I'm sure --can you? Heigho! Heigho!"
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