The maid who died for love sung with unbounded applause by Mr. Incledon in his popular entertainment call'd "A Voyage to India". [graphic]

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Title
The maid who died for love sung with unbounded applause by Mr. Incledon in his popular entertainment call'd "A Voyage to India". [graphic]
Contributor
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created
[15 September 1807]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publish'd Septr. 15, 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract

"A young woman droops in a chair outside a dilapidated cottage. On the door is a horse-shoe, reversed. An owl seated on the window-sill gazes at her. The verses relate the death of 'a lorn damsel at the door' who 'All on the cold damp earth reclin'd'."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Plate numbered '471' in lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Twenty one lines of verse below title: The night was dark, the rain did pour, and bitterly did blow the wind, when a lorn damsel at the door, willows wreathing, deep sigs breathing, all on the cold damp earth reclin'd ...
Watermark: 1807.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 22.3 x 27.2 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
807.09.15.01

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Engravings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) 1807
Material
etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
1807

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Identifiers

Catalog Record
8714511
Object ID (OID)
15814040

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