Paddy's courtship, or, Love at first sight being the awkward addresses of Mr. Patrick O'Shelf, & the abrupt refusal of Miss Blarny. [graphic][30 December 1805]eng"Heading to engraved verses. A loutish would-be fashionable (left) stands, hat in hand, 'staring like a stuck pig', at a fashionably dressed young woman, who trips off gaily to the right, snapping her fingers at her admirer. She holds a small closed parasol. The last of twelve verses: 'With the use of my speech, I recovered my voice, Says I, "My dear lewel; pray take your own choice; For the future I'll serve, one my love will not slight, That's my King & my Country, with joy & delight. Derry down &c.'"--British Museum online catalogueTitle from text engraved below image.Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides.On second plate, twelve numbered quatrains of verse arranged in three columns above imprint line: Through Dublin, as once I was trudging away, about six O'Clock in the middle of the day ...From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Droll series were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.Lower plate numbered '416' in the lower left corner, on second plate.Watermark: John Hall 1800.