The courteous baronet, or, The Windsor advertiser

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Title: The courteous baronet, or, The Windsor advertiser
Alternative Title: Windsor advertiser
Contributor: Knight, Charles, 1750-1824, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 23 October 1799]
Publication Place: Windsor
Publisher: Printed by C. Knight
Description: Title from etching in the center of the letterpress broadside.
Etching originally published on February 16, 1799, by the same publisher, and here inset within a letter printed in letterpress in the left and right margins. The letter's title "To the fair ladies of Great Britain, old or young" is printed above plate. Signed "John Dinely" and dated "Windsor Castle, October 23d, 1799" below the plate. The whole is in ornamental border and decorated with emblematic woodcuts in each of the four corners.
Two lines of verse etched below the plate's title: How happy will a lady be, to have a little baronet to dandle on her knee.
Provenance: Suckling; June 1956.
Extent: 1 sheet (1 page) : 46 x 30 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Portrait prints
Broadsides
Etchings England Windsor 1799
Material: 1 etching ; and Plate mark 33.8 x 20.3 cm.
Subject (Name): Dineley, John, Sir, 1729-1808?
Subject (Topic): Courtship
Subjects: Dineley, John, Sir, 1729-1808?
Courtship
England > 1799
England > Windsor > 1799

Access: Public
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