Sir Peregrine Soft-head and my lady Gad-abroad [graphic].

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Title: Sir Peregrine Soft-head and my lady Gad-abroad [graphic].
Contributor: Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1726 and 1746]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: John Bowles
Description: Title etched within image.
Publication attributed to John Bowles and dated based on imprint from other prints in the series.
Print for June. One of a series of etchings representing the months of the year. Only the image for January has the series title "Lilliputian figures".
Six lines of verse below title: So sweet you look my honey suckle, who would not to your beauty bruckle ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Lilliputians.
Month designation in series erased from this impression?
Restrike date suggested in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v.1, p.86 ; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.4 x 14.6 cm, on sheet 32 x 19 cm
Language: English

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