The sweet little girl that I love [graphic]

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Title: The sweet little girl that I love [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 June 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. June 4, 1808 by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
Abstract: "A tall, thin, elderly military officer, ugly but elegant, stoops to embrace a fat woman, short and hideous. She wears a countrified straw bonnet, apron, and high pattens, but is very decolletee. There is a rustic background with a cottage (right). He says, the words etched across the upper part of the design: My Friends all declare that my time is mispent [sic] While in rural Contentment I rove, I ask no more Wealth than Dame Fortune has sent And the sweet little Girl that I love. The rose on her cheeks my delight She's soft as the down, the down of the dove No Lilly was ever so fair As the sweet little girl that I love!"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33.8 x 23.8 cm
Edition: [Variant state with plate number '45' in upper right corner].
Language: English

Access: Public
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