How I love to laugh, or, The yawner sung by Mr. Grimaldi in Harlequin and the Water Kelpe, at Sadler's Wells. [graphic]

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Title: How I love to laugh, or, The yawner sung by Mr. Grimaldi in Harlequin and the Water Kelpe, at Sadler's Wells. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Yawner
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [8 January 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Jany. 8, 1807, by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A well-dressed man kneels on the ground, yawning; his arm is round the waist of a young woman, who pushes him away. The neat, plain room has a French window with a small iron balcony. The verses relate the mishaps of the singer, owing to inapt yawns: in his patron's face, on the verge of an appointment, when about to kiss the lady he hoped to marry (illustrated), and (the worst) while being shaved."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate numbered '454' in lower right corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Three numbered stanzas below title: How I love to laugh! Never was a weeper ...
Extent: 1 print : sheet 286 x 229 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Songs
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1807
England > London > 1807

Access: Public
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