A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the last, external page; opposite is an ace of hearts as the first, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows a lady in a large hoop-petticoat standing by a dressing table in an elegant room and ordering out of the room a dwarfish man, probably a servant, with a cap in one hand and a playing card with a red letter 'A' in another. He is leaving the room. Among the paintings is a large portrait of Cupid. Several books are on a stool near the door and on the floor next to the stool lies a volume of 'Rochester's Poems'. The verse begins as follows: Sir Francis, my lady & both the Miss D---nts / Sincerely return Lady Dorothy's compliments ...
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Title from item., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771) in 1746?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the last, external page; opposite is an ace of hearts as the first, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows a lady in a large hoop-petticoat standing by a dressing table in an elegant room and ordering out of the room a dwarfish man, probably a servant, with a cap in one hand and a playing card with a red letter 'A' in another. He is leaving the room. Among the paintings is a large portrait of Cupid. Several books are on a stool near the door and on the floor next to the stool lies a volume of 'Rochester's Poems'. The verse begins as follows: Sir Francis, my lady & both the Miss D---nts / Sincerely return Lady Dorothy's compliments ...
Description:
Title from item., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771) in 1746?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the last, external page; opposite is an ace of hearts as the first, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows a lady in a large hoop-petticoat standing by a dressing table in an elegant room and ordering out of the room a dwarfish man, probably a servant, with a cap in one hand and a playing card with a red letter 'A' in another. He is leaving the room. Among the paintings is a large portrait of Cupid. Several books are on a stool near the door and on the floor next to the stool lies a volume of 'Rochester's Poems'. The verse begins as follows: Sir Francis, my lady & both the Miss D---nts / Sincerely return Lady Dorothy's compliments ...
Description:
Title from item., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771) in 1746?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
