"Lullaby!" Sooth him with a lullaby! scene Kegworth / [graphic]

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Title: "Lullaby!" Sooth him with a lullaby! scene Kegworth / [graphic]
Alternative Title: "Lullaby!" Soothe him with a lullaby!
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Blunt, E., artist.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 July 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 12th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess' [sic] Street
Abstract: "A lady, ugly and elderly, sits at a piano in profile to the left, playing and singing. Her open music-book shows her 'Song: would you hurt a harm less maid maid I am young and sore afraid afraid'. Beside her in an arm-chair a fat man with short clumsy legs sits impassively. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Musical instruments: pianoforte -- Songs: Would you hurt a harmless maid -- Sheet music -- Obesity -- Reference to Kegworth, Leicestershire.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.7 x 26.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Singing
Subjects: Singing
England > 1798
England > London > 1798
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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