Accession number
PML 136667.76
Published
[Dublin? : s.n., ca. 1880?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Richard Fowler was a distiller living in Dunlavin, who in November 1797 had been condemned in the Union Star as 'a notorious informer ...'"--T. Moylan. The Age of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition 1776 to 1815.
Printed in a single column, with a wood engraving showing the figure of Jove on his throne, crushing a hydra-headed serpent beneath his foot as he banishes a pack of fools at left; at right stand the female figures of justice, peace, and plenty, and in the background is a printing press labeled "Satirist".
Item mounted onto a leaf from an album of collected song sheets and broadsides (PML 136667) the individual folios disbound and housed in two boxes.
Printed in a single column, with a wood engraving showing the figure of Jove on his throne, crushing a hydra-headed serpent beneath his foot as he banishes a pack of fools at left; at right stand the female figures of justice, peace, and plenty, and in the background is a printing press labeled "Satirist".
Item mounted onto a leaf from an album of collected song sheets and broadsides (PML 136667) the individual folios disbound and housed in two boxes.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (wood engraving) ; 37 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
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