Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record; dated by costume., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved throughout, illustrated with etching by Cole at top of sheet., For voice and harpsichord. Music on 2 staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., and Opening words: While pensive on the lonely plain ...
A song sheet, all engraved, with an oval image of an obese clergyman with a pipe in hand walking beside the caricatured figure of Jewish man, who carries a lantern, printed above two staves of music with the first verse, above 16 verses in three columns. On the left behind them is building with a lean-to while on the right in the distance across a body of water is a church with a steeple
Description:
Title engraved above image., Other editions attribute the text to George Alexander Stevens (1710-1784) in English short title catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 2nd, 1784, by J. Binns, Leeds, and J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Ethnic stereotypes, Intoxication, Pipes (Smoking), and Lanterns
Ttile from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record; dated by costume., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved throughout, illustrated with etching by Cole at top of sheet., For voice and harpsichord. Music on 2 staves with interlinear words. Additional stanza below. Part for flute at foot of page., and Opening words: Charmer, permit me to make a surrender ...