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The Queen of the Mohocks

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The Queen of the Mohocks

[1745?]
320 x 196 mm.
Peel 0285
Notes
2 columns of verse under image: "The chearful Night worn out within, / While Wit was furnesh'd round by Gin, / See, maudlin, from a Cellar issue / These titled Vulgar, cloth'd in Tessue! / Well arm'd and fir'd, was ever seen, / In greater state, a Midnight Queen? / Did ever Cou-rs round appear / With higher Dignity than here? / Example more than Precept draws, / And, Vicious, blunts the Edge of Laws: / For, not the worst of Fame can rob, / This motley, n-le, Mohock Mob".
Copy in Lewis Walpole Library, no. 745.0.5. Copy in Library of Congress (no. 1.484?)
Not in British Museum?
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints