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- Creator:
- Dawe, Philip, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published according to act, March 20th, 1772.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 212. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on lecherous elderly men: a serving maid recoils as an elderly macaroni, sitting at a table with a glass, puts his arm round her waist and offers her a purse."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: Macaroni endeavours the maid to seduce, With gold and such prate as with fops is in use. In vain is his courtship; the maiden stil coy, Rejects the vile letcher, and all his false joy., Folded to 32 x 25.8 cm., and Bound in opposite page 212 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill
- Subject (Name):
- Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Older people, Courtship, Lust, Drinking vessels, and Purses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The macaroni courtship rejected [graphic]