The spell Hobnelia. [graphic]

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Title: The spell Hobnelia. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Hobnelia
Contributor: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: [1784?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: From the left a well-dressed maiden pulls a length of twine from around the right stocking of a country boy who sleeps on a grassy bank under four large, leafy trees. The eight lines of Gay's poem Shepherd's week quoted on either side of the title describe her intention of joining the twine to her garter to form "a true loves knot."
Description: Title from item.
Publication date following the phrase "Publish'd as the Act directs" has been burnished from plate.
Numbered '506' in lower left of plate.
Dated tentatively from plate number. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, Appendix, p. 786-7: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.
Four lines in two columns on either side of the title: As Lubberkin once slept beneath a tree ... from the favourite Pastoral of Gay's Shepherd's work.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; July 2008;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.4 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 40 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1784
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic): Couples
Courtship
Meadows
Subjects: Gay, John, 1685-1732 > Illustrations
Couples
Courtship
Meadows
England > London > 1784

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