"Heading to printed verses: 'As sung with unbounded Applause by Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Taylor, &c.' A grinning man, vulgarly fashionable, sits on a chair, singing, with music on his knee; an Italian greyhound (right) howls. A waiter puts a dish of salad on a table on which are Bologna sausage, cruet, &c. An opera-singer, 'Masteri', at the Orange coffee-house: With penny-o he will buy any, If it have Dandilioni, Saladini, beetrootini, Endivini, celerini, Napkinnini swingidini, . . . (ll. 16-20 of 62 ll.)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse in letterpress below title: Maseri was an opera-singer, liv'd in alley call'd Cranbon ..., Plate numbered in upper left corner: 493., and 1 print on wove paper : etching & engraving with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 18.3 x 23.8 cm, on sheet 31 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 24, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
