Jenny and auld Robin Gray [graphic]

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Title: Jenny and auld Robin Gray [graphic]
Creator: Ryder, Thomas, 1746-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Shelley, Samuel, approximately 1750-1808, artist.
Watts, Simon, active 1783-1786, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 June 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, June 20th 1785, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Court, Strand
Description: Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Six lines of verse engraved below title: "The summer it was smiling all nature round was gay ... Song of Auld Robin Gray."
Dedication below verse: "To Mrs. Brereton this plate is inscrib'd, by her much obliged servant, Saml. Shelley."
Mounted to 24 x 17 cm.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956;
Extent: 1 print : round design 9 cm. in diameter, on sheet 20 x 14 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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