Cato's advice, or, The jovial companions

Description

Title: Cato's advice, or, The jovial companions
Alternative Title: Jovial companions
Contributor: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker.
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
Published / Created: 1740?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: s.n.
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in partial loss of plate numbering.
Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate.
For voice and keyboard instrument.
Plate numbered '1[8]' in upper right corner.
Opening words: What Cato advises, most certainly wise is ...
Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v. 2.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: countermark E.
Plate number partially cut off.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v.1 ; May 1954.
Extent: 1 score ([1] p.) : sheet 29 x 19 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Satires England 1740
Satires (Visual works) England 1740
Songs England 1740
Etchings England London 1740
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: 1 etching ;
Subject (Topic): Songs with keyboard instrument
Subjects: Songs with keyboard instrument > 18th century
England > 1740
England > London > 1740

Access: Public
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