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 II, 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; on verso of mount: Vol. II, p. 230.
Drawing shows a view of a masquerade at Ranelagh, a group of revellers, some in the costumes of the Commedia dell'arte, dancing up the avenue to the left, some falling down and others beating them, men and women drinking and conversing in a pavilion surrounded by an ornamental pool, a man in a boat rowing across it, other masqueraders walking through the gardens, a maypole and the Rotunda beyond.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.