Title from item., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Unaccompanied melody., and Song in six stanzas, printed below title. The first stanza printed with music, the following five without music in three columns below.
Publisher:
Published 4th October 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., Plate numbered '42' in upper right corner., "To ye tune of ye Black Joke"--Lower right corner of plate., Opening words: Whence comes it that ye shining great, to titles born and awful state ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, volume1., Watermark: countermark E., and Annotation in an unidentified hand at bottom of sheet, recto.
In a sparsely furnished bedroom, a woman in a high night cap lies in a curtained bed on the right . A man stands in the center of the room, facing her, hat under his left arm. His riding crop lies on a table by the window
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved song for two voices and violin with a version for flute. Illustrated with an etching at top of sheet., Opening words: Off [sic] all comforts I miscarried ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Pro patria., and Window mounted to 37 x 27 cm.