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Let the poor town bred Satyrs Sport/ With am'rous verses as if bred at Court. [Ink mss.]
[William Anderson.]
[n.d., c.1820s.]
Pen & ink sketch, sheet 170 x 120mm. 6¾ x 4¾". Slightly soiled; corner tips missing. Glued to album page.
Social satire. Two destitute men in rags in a street: one contemplates leaving town by one of the means advertised on the posters on the wall, saying 'For I must away by tomorrow ah Me ah Me'; the other approaches saying 'You ask a song you bid me sing.'
From an album titled 'Scraps and Sketches of the Late William Anderson Esqr/ collected by his Schoolfellow & Friend William Naylor.'
[Ref: 12301] £95.00
[n.d., c.1820s.]
Pen & ink sketch, sheet 170 x 120mm. 6¾ x 4¾". Slightly soiled; corner tips missing. Glued to album page.
Social satire. Two destitute men in rags in a street: one contemplates leaving town by one of the means advertised on the posters on the wall, saying 'For I must away by tomorrow ah Me ah Me'; the other approaches saying 'You ask a song you bid me sing.'
From an album titled 'Scraps and Sketches of the Late William Anderson Esqr/ collected by his Schoolfellow & Friend William Naylor.'
[Ref: 12301] £95.00