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Author/Creator:Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker.
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Title:Does the harp of Rosa slumber [graphic] / [man with an umbrella] Esqr.
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Publication:[London] : Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London, [approximately 1829]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 35.6 x 25 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 829.00.00.117+
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Provenance:Grosvenor Prints; May 2023.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Medium:wove paper
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Notes:Title etched below image.
Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.318.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
One line of quoted text beneath title: "Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
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Summary:An old woman in patched-up clothes with her harp huddles in a doorway. The satire contrasts the life of a street singer with the sweet lyrics of the popular ballad by Thomas Moore.
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Subjects:Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852. Does the harp of Rosa slumber--Parodies, imitations, etc.
Street musicians.
Harps.
Older people.
Poor persons.
Women.
Doors & doorways.
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Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1829.
Etchings--England--London--1829.
Artists' devices.
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Also listed under:McLean, T. (Thomas), publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16649580