publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 9, 1743.
Call Number:
743.07.09.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
notated music and still image
Description:
Engraved throughout, illustrated with etching at top of sheet., For voice and harpsichord. Music on 2 staves with interlinear words. Additional two stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., Opening words: When Orpheus went down to the regions below which men are forbidden to see ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Fleur-de-lis, mostly cut off.
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.
Title from item., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record; dated by costume., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved throughout, illustrated with an etching by Cole at top of sheet., For voice and harpsichord. Music on 2 staves with interlinear words. Additional two stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., and Opening words: Trust not man for he'll deceive you ...
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 ...