The mulberry-tree

Description

Title: The mulberry-tree
Contributor: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Published / Created: [1 March 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 1st March, 1808, by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
Abstract: "Heading to a printed song. Three fashionably dressed men sit at a round table under a mulberry-tree, over wine, pipes, and mulberries. One sings the song (as printed), glass in hand and pointing up to the tree. On the ground is a lighted lantern. In the background a park slopes upwards towards a country house."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption engraved below image at head of sheet.
Place transposed from end of imprint statement.
A ballad, with an illustration by Cruikshank.
Numbered in upper left corner of image: 483.
Signed in image: Cruikshank del. 1808.
Imprint etched on plate: Publish'd Mar. 1, 1808, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
1 print : etching & engraving with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 202 x 196 mm, on sheet 29 x 23 cm.
Watermark: 1814.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiv.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 27 x 19 cm.
Language: English

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