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
The musical score with lyrics of a drinking song "The jolly Bacchanalians" with a copy of William Hogarth's "A midnight modern conversation" which shows a large party of men smoking, drinking, and singing around a table with a large bowl in the center. Several of the men are clearly intoxicated, one has fallen off his chair, lost his wig and is sprawled on the ground
Alternative Title:
Jolly Bacchanalians
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: Universal harmony, or, The gentleman & ladies' social companion. London : Printed for the proprietors & sold by J. Newbery at the Bible & Sun in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1746., Engraved throughout; illustrated with a design after Hogarth's painting 'A midnight modern conversation' at top of plate., and "P. 55"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors & sold by J. Newbery at the Bible & Sun in St. Paul's Church Yard