A cure for lovl [sic] no cure, no pay / [graphic]

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Title: A cure for lovl [sic] no cure, no pay / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Cure for love
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [9 January 1819]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Jan. 9, 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.
Abstract: "A fat ugly man stands in a dilapidated wash-house, one foot on a rough stool, the other trampling on his wig; he gazes up at a noose hanging from a beam, saying, "Oh! my hard Fate!" / Why did I trust her ever?" / What story is not full of Womans Falsehood?" At his feet is a letter: 'You old Fool if you ever [? trouble] me again with your Stupid epistles I will expose you in the public Papers Peggy Perkins.' Below the title: 'No Cure no Pay.' Below the design are eight lines of verse, beginning and ending: 'The one end of a Rope fasten over a beam And make a slip noose at the other extreme, . . . The cricket [stool] kick'd down let him take a fair swing And leave all the rest of the work to the string."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Traces of an earlier imprint following statement of responsibility.
"London" mostly burnished from plate following imprint.
Eight lines of verse below image: The one end of a rope, fasten over a beam and make a slip noose at the other extreme ...
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xv, p. 120.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.2 x 24.3 cm, on sheet 39 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1819
Etchings England London 1819
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Nooses
Obesitly
Suicides
Wash tubs
Wigs
Subjects: Nooses
Obesitly
Suicides
Wash tubs
Wigs
England > 1819
England > London > 1819

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