Grotesque borders for rooms & halls. [graphic] / No. 16

"Three strips arranged in columns. Column 1: A Lilliputian man addresses a weeping woman: Hence loathed melancholy, the first line of Milton's L'Allegro A sailor using an eyeglass to admire a young woman wearing a patterned dress and muff. A woman in a high-waisted dress, addressing shepherds. The verse is taken from a caricature of the same name, published by Newton in 1795. Othello comes across Desdemona in bed. Act 5, scene 2 of Othello. Column 2: A brewer's daughter and another girl argue over precedence. A Lilliputian balding beau is introduced to an ugly young woman for a dance. A large woman threatens to hit a large man. A Lilliputian 'jemmy' smiling at two girls. He speaks the lines A Clerk was I in London gay ... which are from a song included in Colman's Inkle and Yarico first staged at the Haymarket on 4 August 1787. They are also quoted at the beginning of Charles Lamb's essay The Superannuated Man, where they are attributed to O'Keefe. Column 3: A Lilliputian cobbler and his wife. Of all the trades from east to west is from a song from The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphos'd of 1731, by Charles Coffey. A large Lilliputian man in old-fashioned clothes kneeling before a woman playing a harp. He quotes Ah sure a pair was never seen ( ... ) from act I, scene I of The Mourning Bride, by Congreve. A short fat man and an ugly woman. An old beau holding an umbrella leers at a ballad-singer in the rain."--The National Archives online catalogue, reference no.: D5459/2/23/11.