Go for a looby go [graphic].

Published/Created:

London
Published July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
[July 1792]

Physical Description:

1 print : mezzotint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 357 x 253 mm, on sheet 39 x 28 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Eight lines of verse in two columns: Sylvia sweet can you love me. My mother to it will agree. She would sooner give a cow, Then I should die of love of you ... I would not for a crown, be wedded to a clown, Go for a looby go.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss.
Publisher's stamp in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.

Abstract:

In a natural setting under a tree stand a young couple in rustic dress. The young man (left) is asking the pretty young woman (right) to marry him, smiles demurely at him.

Associated Names:

Fores, S. W. [Publisher]

Topics:

Couples
Courtship

Language:

English

Genre:

Mezzotints -- England -- London -- 1792
Printer's devices (Publishing) -- England -- London -- 1792
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1792

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

792.07.00.03+

Orbis Record:

7818176

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07505

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10957225

PID:

digcoll:550877