Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Roger, who and Corvus Pegasus together had laid their heads when half seas over ..., and Second sheet attached to print 12 x 19 cm.
Probably an illustration to Sterne's Sentimental Journey. A corpulent gentleman with an equally rotund lady on his arm waits in a line of passengers to board a ship. An invalid is carried up the gangpank in a chair, while a servant carries a side of beef on a platter together with a basket of wine-bottles. Another gentleman descends from a coach. Masts of sailing vessels occupy the background
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Dover (England), England, and Dover
