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Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: 15 Dec. 1807.
Call Number:: 807.12.15.01.1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A parody on Book 8, lines 487-9 of John Milton's Paradise lost. A lean, spectacled man stands by a bed as he welcomes a drunken trollope who staggers into the room holding a glass and a bottle labelled Geneva (gin). He exclaims, parodying Milton, "On she came-such ad I saw her in my dream, Geneva was in all her steps --Geneva in her hand and every gesture-reeling ripe for fun!" Outside on the landing, a pretty young woman looks on with amusement
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '33' in upper left corner., "Price one shilling col[oure]d.", Quotation from Milton's Paradise Lost, below title: On she came-such ad I saw her in my dream, grace was in all her steps-Heaven in her eye in every gesture-dignity and love., Cf. No. 11142, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of variant state., Temporary local subject terms: Spectacles., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:: Published by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A parody on Milton! [graphic]