<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Frontispiece to Leveridge's Collection of songs] [graphic].</dc:title><dc:creator>Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[November 1727]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her</dc:description><dc:description>Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson</dc:description><dc:description>With: Engraved title page for "A collection of songs with the musick by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London : Engrav'd and printed for the author in Tavistock-Street, Covent-Garden, 1727."</dc:description><dc:description>"The ornaments around the title page many also be by Hogarth, but I see no very good reason to thinks so"--Paulson, p. 71.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to plate mark.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>