The sweet little gipsey [graphic].

Description

Title: The sweet little gipsey [graphic].
Alternative Title: Sweet little Gypsy
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [5 November 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 5th Novr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: Under a large tree on the outskirts of a village, a Gypsy woman holds the hand of one of a pair of pretty, fashionably dressed young ladies as she tells her fortune. The young woman hides her face behind her fan. A little Gypsy girl glasps the skirts of her mother
Description: Title engraved below image.
Thirty-four lines of verse in four columns printed below title: Come hither, ye girls, and attend to my call ...
Plate numbered "365" in lower left below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.6 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 41 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Songs
Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1795
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
England
Subject (Topic): Romanies
Clothing & dress
Fortune telling
Girls
Women
Subjects: Romanies > England
Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
Fortune telling
Girls
Women
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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