Accession number
PML 145850.229
Published
[London? : s.n., 17--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Another version of this rebus was executed and sold in London by Andrew Johnston with his imprint, ca. 1710. Cf. Stephens, F. British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, no. 1552.
Caption text engraved at head within a scrollwork frame.
Inserted as item 230 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).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark, with possible loss of imprint.
Another version of this rebus was executed and sold in London by Andrew Johnston with his imprint, ca. 1710. Cf. Stephens, F. British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, no. 1552.
Caption text engraved at head within a scrollwork frame.
Inserted as item 230 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).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark, with possible loss of imprint.
Description
1 print : etching ; 181 x 156 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A rebus transliterated as follows: Your ladyship may well be in a maze and think either maggot or mill in my crown for being a meddler out of my own sphere yet had I wings I would fly to your feet and rely on your justice in hope of my pardon. A fool is an extinguisher of love's flames may some good angel shield you from that lamentable cross. I was neither ape nor urchin for all the owls of Tonbridge to gaze at if Mr De-s eyes want spectacles to find a face I can compass those will fit his nose and but last Sunday I met a parrot [?] and saw Mr J-n reel from ye Bell to salute a wench in a pink petticoat. I shall not harp any more on thoses asses but leave them to ye devil only tell you neither time nor fortune can alter my heart but shall still rest Madam your Most Passionate Servant J W.
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