The lyon in love, or, The political farmer an Aesopian tale applicable to the present times. [graphic]

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Title: The lyon in love, or, The political farmer an Aesopian tale applicable to the present times. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Political farmer
Lion in love
Published / Created: [1738?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date inferred from dated edtion described in British Museum catalogue.
Three columns of verse below title: A lyon once to love inclin'd, thus to a farmer broke his mind ...
State without imprint. Cf. No. 2347 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Temporary local subject terms: Dismemberment of British Empire -- Literature: allusion to Aesop's fables -- Don Thomas Geraldino.
Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Provenance: Alan Thomas for W.S. Lewis, Christie's October 21, 1965, lot 33; November 1965; Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 32.8 x 20.1 cm, on sheet 38 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1738
Etchings England London 1738
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1738
England > London > 1738

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