Accession number
PML 145850.124
Published
[London : s.n., ca. 1710]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Six lines of engraved verse below image: How silly this lad is who takes a delight / To play with his Monkey from morning till night! / But tho' he be foolish, & wanton, & wild, / Wee are apt to excuse him, and say he's a Child. / But what shall wee say, when the wise and the Godly / Do spend all their time on Sacheverell and Hoadly?
Mounted as item 124 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Six lines of engraved verse below image: How silly this lad is who takes a delight / To play with his Monkey from morning till night! / But tho' he be foolish, & wanton, & wild, / Wee are apt to excuse him, and say he's a Child. / But what shall wee say, when the wise and the Godly / Do spend all their time on Sacheverell and Hoadly?
Mounted as item 124 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 175 x 120 mm; plate mark: 200 x 130 mm; sheet: 262 x 187 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young boy standing with a leashed monkey poised on his arm.
Classification
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