The Miser's Daughter: 8/20, Randulph refusing to drink 'The King's Health' over 'The Water'

This print shows the hero of the novel comes to London and has an active social life attending parties. At one of them a character called Cordwell Firebras discusses Jacobite plots and it is this encounter in which Randulph refiuses to pledge allegiance to Bonny Prince Charlie by drinking his health that is recorded in the illustration.

The Miser's Daughter is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth published in 1842.Set in the eighteenth century it is a historical romance which tells the story of Randulph Crew's attempts to marry the daughter of a miser called Scarve. It was illustrated by the prolific caricature artist George Cruikshank ( 1792-1878). Intertwined with th emain plot are variou strands which deal with aspects of London society at that time, for instance settlement of estates and wills.