A fashionably dressed young woman with a lace-bordered apron and shawl stands by the seashore. Leaning with her left elbow on the grassy top of a rock, she appears to be crying. Behind her is a departing ship
Description:
Title from item., Publication date erased from the plate. Date conjectured from the plate number., Plate numbered 491., and Below the title are four verses "From the favourite Song of the Maiden's Complaint."
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A fashionably dressed young woman holding a basket on her left arm watches pensively a hen, a rooster, and four chickens feeding at her feet in front of a small building with clapboard walls and an overhang above a Dutch door, probably a chicken coop. To her left, in the background, is a vast lawn bordered by flowers near the coop and by large trees, with a cottage behind, at the other end. The verse printed on both side of the title below the design begins, "To Operas, Masquerades, and Plays, / This Cottage Maid's a Stranger;"
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map and printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Farm life, Poultry houses, Chickens, Baskets, and Clothing & dress
