Under the earth lies the skin ..., not after 1806

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Title: Under the earth lies the skin ..., not after 1806
Creator: Percy, René de, 1756-1835
Abstract: Manuscript poem, in an unidentified hand, consisiting of eight lines. "Under the Earth / Lies the skin / under the Skin / The Body / Of a Psyche Bitch / Wife of a Cupid Dog. / She lived very mild / And died with Child." Above the poem, in the upper left corner of the sheet, is written "Vive" in the same hand
Description: In English.
Title from first two lines of the poem.
Attributed to René de Percy based on manuscript note in a different hand below poem: By [the] Abbé́ Percy échantillon of English.
Date based on the death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this poem was found.
Formerly laid in at page 120 of an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
Provenance: Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
Extent: 1 19 x 11 cm item ;
Language: English
French

Access: Public
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Citation: René de Percy, Under the Earth Lies the Skin ... The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.