The old woman and her eggs sung by Mr. Fawcett, in Crotchet Lodge. [graphic][29 October 1805]eng"Heading to engraved verses (which survive as a nursery rhyme) ... The woman stands at her cottage door, with her petticoats cut off to the knee. Her little dog barks at her. Behind (left) stands the pedlar, grinning, his box strapped to his shoulder. The verses end: 'He began to bark & she began to cry, Lord ha mercy on me, this is none of I, fal de ral.'"--British Museum online catalogueTitle from item.From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.Twenty lines of verse below title: There was a little woman as I've heard tell, she went to market her eggs for to sell, fal de ral, &c...Plate numbered '498' in the lower left corner.