Does the harp of Rosa slumber [graphic]

Description

Title: Does the harp of Rosa slumber [graphic]
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1829]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Abstract: An old woman in patched-up clothes with her harp huddles in a doorway. The satire contrasts the life of a street singer with the sweet lyrics of the popular ballad by Thomas Moore
Description: Title etched below image.
Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.318.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
One line of quoted text beneath title: "Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; May 2023.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35.6 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English