Eclogues, [circa 1716]

Description

Title: Eclogues, [circa 1716]
Alternative Title: Town eclogues
Creator: Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762
Contributor: Stuart, Louisa, Lady, 1757-1851.
Abstract: A collection of manuscript poem in the hand of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, entitled 'Eclogues', poems that describe upper-class rituals such as card playing and that mock immorality in the court of George I. While Lady Mary calls these poems “Eclogs.” Horace Walpole published them as Six Town Eclogues. In another unidentified hand on page [28] the identity of the characters in the poems are listed: Roxana, the Duchess of Roxburgh; Coquetilla, the Duchess of Sh-b-y, ...
Description: Mounted on a piece of brown paper, formerly part of an album, with a note in the hand of Lady Louisa Stuart at the top reading, "Poems written in her own hand & given by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to her friend Henrietta Countess of Pomfret. The handwriting authenticated by Lady Mary's granddaughter Lady Louisa Stuart, youngest daughter of John 3rd Earl of Bute."
Note on first page of text authenticating the handwriting is signed by Louisa Stuart and dated 1845.
Written in ink on verso of mounting sheet: Lady Morgan (twice) and Miss Cagwo[rth?].
In English.
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Provenance: Purchased from Ian Marr, October 2015.
Extent: 1 18.5 cm, mounted on brown sheet 37 cm item ([33] p.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English