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.
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.
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.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.