Go for a looby go [graphic].

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Title: Go for a looby go [graphic].
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [July 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: In a natural setting under a tree stand a young couple in rustic dress. The young man (left) is asking the pretty young woman (right) to marry him, smiles demurely at him
Description: Title etched below image.
Eight lines of verse in two columns: Sylvia sweet can you love me. My mother to it will agree. She would sooner give a cow, Then I should die of love of you ... I would not for a crown, be wedded to a clown, Go for a looby go.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher's stamp in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 357 x 253 mm, on sheet 39 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Mezzotints England London 1792
Printer's devices (Publishing) England London 1792
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Courtship
Subjects: Couples
Courtship
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

Access: Public
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