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 III, chapter 11, 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; numbered "19" at head of sheet in graphite; on verso of mount: Vol. III, p. 212.
Drawing shows Abel Beechcroft, a candle held aloft and with a look of horror on his face, discovering the corpse of Mr. Scarve, the miser, lying half out of a hole in the cellar floor, surrounded by bags of his treasure, and a shovel and a candle-stick in the foreground.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.