The contented fellow [graphic].

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Title: The contented fellow [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [7 December 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Dec. 7, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: A well-dressed man carouses with a pretty young woman seated on his knee. On a table (right) are bottles, &c., and beside it others in a wine-cooler. Through an open door is seen a well-stocked cellar. They raise glasses whose stems have been broken
Description: Caption title from letterpress broadside printed on same sheet.
Plate numbered '479' in upper right corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Twenty four lines of verse printed on broadside portion of sheet: Contented I am, and contented I'll be, for what can this world more afford, than a girl that will socialbly sit on my knee, and a cellar that's plentiful stor'd, my brave boys!...
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.2 x 26.2 cm, on sheet 25 x 29 cm
Language: English

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