The courteous baronet, or, The Windsor advertiser

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Title: The courteous baronet, or, The Windsor advertiser
Alternative Title: Windsor advertiser
Contributor: Knight, Charles, 1750-1824, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 20 May 1799]
Publication Place: Windsor
Publisher: C. Knight
Description: Title from etching in the center of the letterpress broadside.
Etching originally published on February 16, 1799, by C. Knight, and here inset within a letter printed in letterpress in the left and right margins. The letter's title "To the fair ladies of Great Britain, old or young" is printed above plate. Signed "John Dinely" and dated "Windsor Castle, May 20th, 1799" below the plate. The whole is in ornamental border and decorated with emblematic woodcuts in each of the four corners.
Two lines of verse etched below the plate's title: How happy will a lady be, to have a little baronet to dandle on her knee.
Another very similar broadside using the same plate was published October 23d, 1799 by C. Knight. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9446.
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Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : plate mark 33.8 x 21 cm, on sheet 45 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Caricatures
Broadsides
Etchings England Windsor 1799
Material: 1 etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Name): Dineley, John, Sir, 1729-1808?
Subject (Topic): Courtship
Subjects: Dineley, John, Sir, 1729-1808?
Courtship
England > 1799
England > Windsor > 1799

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