The gay Lothario - Public domain portrait drawing

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The gay Lothario - Public domain portrait drawing

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A homely, elderly man dressed in fashionable clothing ogles a pretty young woman standing opposite him, with her hands in a large muff.
Inscribed above image: I am Informed Madam, your present protector is an Old Man which must be a great misfortune at your time of life. -under this consideration, I mean to take you to myself with a capital establishment.
Inscribed below title and crossed out: Considerate Gallant!
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Signed, lower left: Woodward Delin.
The version cited in the British Museum catalogue has a slightly longer caption.
Title inscribed below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.743)
Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress).
Published in: Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. VIII 1801-1810 / by Mary Dorothy George. London: The British Museum, Printed by Order of the Trustees,1947 (entry #10670).

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01/01/1803
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Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
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Library of Congress
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