The celebrated mock italian song; as sung with unbounded applause by Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Taylor, &c. / [graphic]

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Title: The celebrated mock italian song; as sung with unbounded applause by Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Taylor, &c. / [graphic]
Contributor: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist.
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 August 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Augt. 24, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "Heading to printed verses: 'As sung with unbounded Applause by Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Taylor, &c.' A grinning man, vulgarly fashionable, sits on a chair, singing, with music on his knee; an Italian greyhound (right) howls. A waiter puts a dish of salad on a table on which are Bologna sausage, cruet, &c. An opera-singer, 'Masteri', at the Orange coffee-house: With penny-o he will buy any, If it have Dandilioni, Saladini, beetrootini, Endivini, celerini, Napkinnini swingidini, . . . (ll. 16-20 of 62 ll.)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text printed in letterpress below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Four columns of verse in letterpress below title: Maseri was an opera-singer, liv'd in alley call'd Cranbon ...
Plate numbered in upper left corner: 493.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 28.5 x 23.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Songs
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1808
England > London > 1808

Access: Public
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