A seated old woman in under-clothes pouncing on a flea on her knee. Coloured etching by A.M.D.(?).

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 25.9 x 17.3 cm

An old maid in search of a flea. ; On record bold flea with Columbus you'l stand, / who sought the American shore, / Like him you undaunted explored a new land, / where man never ventured before!! Bears indistinct monogram

J.M. Doby, Des compagnons de toujours, vol I: la puce, L' Hermitage 1996, p. 170

Wellcome Collection 33976i