Weep, Thaly Weep! [graphic]

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Title: Weep, Thaly Weep! [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Published / Created: [1778]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Illustration that appears on "Title-page to 'An Elegy on the Death of Samuel Foote, Esq.' by Boschereccio (London: George Kearsley, 1778) In a landscape; portrait head in profile to left, in an oval medallion, on ground at foot of a tree; to left, Thalia, Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry, seated on rocks, looking at the medallion and weeping; to left, shadow of Foote being led to a boat by Mercury; in foreground, a head buried in ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
For full impression of title page, Cf. British Museum registration no. 1897,1231.189.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 9.5 x 11 cm
Edition: [1st state].
Language: English

Access: Public
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