A trompe-l'oeil drawing of a medley of slip-songs, playing cards, prints, music, and other ephemera
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A trompe-l'oeil drawing of a medley showing slip songs, topographical prints, sheet with music, receipts, a botanical drawing, a playing card (Queen of Clubs), and ephemera laid out and overlapping under a view of a fortified island, all laid out on wooden floorboards. The popular slip song ("The Milk Maid, sung at Sadlers'Wells") includes both its woodcuts. There are two plans, "Plan of Louisbourg" in Nova Scotia and "Plan of Palais, Capital of Bell'Isle" in Brittany as well as a scene of a man fishing, a view of a cottage across the river. The music is identified as "The bird, set for the German Flute". Other prints or drawings show a flower with a Greek key design border, a bookplate design with the initials 'BL', a Dec, 7, 1765 Harrow turnpike ticket, and a receipt for payment by George Burges of Broad[...] for tea and coffee. Possibly the work of an amateur artist in the vicinity of London