Alphonso!!! a touch at the sublime and beautiful!!! / [graphic]

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Title: Alphonso!!! a touch at the sublime and beautiful!!! / [graphic]
Creator: Quirk, Jacob, artist
Contributor: Quirk, Jacob.
Walker, Elizabeth, active 1789-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [23 January 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Jany. 23, 1808, by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Description: Title from letterpress header to broadside printed below image.
Header to broadside continues: By Jacob Quirk, a modern sonnetteer. A soliloquy.
Fourteen lines of verse printed on broadside portion of sheet: Hungry and cold, unshelter'd with a cloak, A solitary wretch, these shores I roam ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.3 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 41.6 x 25.7 cm.
Mounted on leaf 55 of volume 11 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 37.1 x 23.9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Broadsides
Etchings England London 1808
Watermarks (Paper) Ruse & Turners 1805
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1808
England > London > 1808
Ruse & Turners > 1805
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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