Title printed below design on the plate and continuously on the sheet below plate mark., Three columns of verse in 17 stanzas below title: Young Damon and Phyllis whose hearts were entwined, Who felt for each other a flame, Oft talked of the vows that ought lovers to bind ..., Parody of a ballad of the same title in The Monk by M.G. Lewis., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: parlor -- Architectural details: wainscot -- Wedding feast -- Emotions: fear -- Food: suckling pig -- Roasted poultry -- Table-settings -- Reference to Charles Few., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798 [date mostly trimmed].
Publisher:
Published 4th June 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
"A group of men crowd around a large punch-bowl, peering through telescopes at an owl perched on the inn-sign of a sun."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at the bottom., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Astronomical observations -- Parsons -- Glass: wine bottles -- Smoking -- Dishes: punch bowls., Watermark: Cansell 1824., and Evidence of erasure of text below title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Monkeys, Owls, Signs (Notices), Smoking, and Telescopes
