<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>[A country squire] [art original]</dc:title><dc:date>[1740]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Title devised by curator.</dc:description><dc:description>Seemingly signed with initials and dated by the artist; the indeterminate, monogrammatic signature may be "CAv." or "Av."</dc:description><dc:description>With three stanzas of a song from Henry Carey's 1735 ballad farce The honest Yorkshireman written below image: Come hither my country squire, take friendly instructions from me ...</dc:description><dc:description>Mounted on page 75 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &amp;c. by George Vertue and others.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>