Gay's Fables [graphic].

Description

Title: Gay's Fables [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: as the act directs, Novr. 17th, 1787.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Robt. Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Abstract: An engraved writing sheet illustrated with seven scenes from Gay’s Fables, each titled above and with rhyming couplet below. At head, and the largest scene, is ‘The Shepherd and the Philosopher’; six smaller scenes form the right and left borders below. A garlanded oval, designed to carry a hand-inserted date-line, is engraved at the foot above the imprint
Description: Title engraved at top of plate, on either side of the image of "The shepherd and the philosopher."
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 45.8 x 36 cm, on sheet 49.7 x 40 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Early works to 1800
Etchings England London 1787
Engravings England London 1787
Pictorial lettersheets
Juvenilia
Stationery
Decorated papers
Writing paper
Watermarks (Paper)
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic): Fables
Subjects: Gay, John, 1685-1732
Fables > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
Fables
England > London > 1787
18th century

Access: Public
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