The curtain lecture

Description

Title: The curtain lecture
Creator: D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723
Published / Created: [approximately 1690]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: In a sparsely furnished bedroom, a woman in a high night cap lies in a curtained bed on the right . A man stands in the center of the room, facing her, hat under his left arm. His riding crop lies on a table by the window
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Engraved song for two voices and violin with a version for flute. Illustrated with an etching at top of sheet.
Opening words: Off [sic] all comforts I miscarried ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: Pro patria.
Window mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vo. i ; May 1954;
Extent: 1 score (1 unnumbered page) : sheet 32 x 23 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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