Accession number
PML 145850.213
Published
[London] : Printed for John King at the Globe in the Poultry, and John Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleet-street; and sold at the print and pamphlet shops, [1747?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
First line: Come and listen to my ditty, all ye British sons of worth.
Inserted as item 213 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).
With an etched illustration of a giant donkey at head of sheet (239 x 198 mm), labelled "His Honour's pack ass", burdened with excise, land tax, and customs.
Library's copy has lower half of sheet cropped to 29 cm; with loss of broadside text and imprint.
Inserted as item 213 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).
With an etched illustration of a giant donkey at head of sheet (239 x 198 mm), labelled "His Honour's pack ass", burdened with excise, land tax, and customs.
Library's copy has lower half of sheet cropped to 29 cm; with loss of broadside text and imprint.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (etching) ; 29 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
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