Publish'd April 15, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description
Title from broadside printed on same sheet. Header to broadside: In answer to Captain Morris's celebrated song of "Country life" written by the late Mr. Hewerdine. Ten stanzas of verse printed in letterpress: As town-bitten bards, bred in fashion and noise, the country decry, and its health yielding joys; let us fairly examine the preference due to the smoak-smother'd town, o'er the villa's clear view ... From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls. Plate numbered '465' in the upper left corner. Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. XII.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 18.5 x 22.4 cm, on sheet 31 x 24 cm
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