An epistle to Miss - &c, &c. - Yale University Library

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Title: An epistle to Miss - &c, &c.
Alternative Title: Epistle to Miss - etc, etc
Miss - in the actual dress as she appear'd in ye character of Iphigenia, at ye jubilee ball or masquerade at Ranelagh
Contributor: Freeman, A., fl. 1749, publisher.
Published / Created: [1749]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for A. Freeman, near Charing-Cross
Description: Title from item.
Miss - is Miss Chudleigh.
Broadside illustrated at top of sheet with an etching (plate mark 26.5 x 33.3 cm).
Two lines of verse below title : Some men to pleasure, some to bus'ness take ... Pope.
Twelve lines of verse etched below caption title on the plate: What odd fantastick whimsies fill ...
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Susannah Maria Ciber, 1714-1766 -- Masquerade: Punch -- Masquerade: Domino -- Masquerade: Iphigenia -- Literature: Alexander Pope, 1688-1744 -- Jubilee: masquerade ball, Ranelagh, May 1, 1749 -- Mask.
Provenance: Alan Thomas for W.S. Lewis, Christie's October 21, 1965, lot 33; November 1965; Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 51 x 38 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Broadsides England 1749
Satires (Visual works) England 1749
Etchings England London 1749
Material: ill. (etching) ;
Subject (Name): George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788
Subjects: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1749
England > London > 1749

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