The Lady of the Lake.

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Hand-coloured etching, illustration, 23.5 x 21cm, above title & six lines of verse; trimmed to plate mark at upper margin. Plate 27.5 x 21.5, sheet 33 x 23cm. v.g. Copies are located at the BM, V&A, Library of Congress, Yale, and Brown. George BM Satires 11607, 'A rough-looking woman, stout, tall and muscular, with loose hair blown by the wind, stands in a dinghy, holding an oar, inscribed 'Moll Muggins Billingsgate'. A satire on Sir Walter Scott's popular poem The Lady of the Lake, published in the same year and reaching six editions by December. The six lines below the title are from Scott's poem: 'The maiden paus'd as if again. / She thought to catch the distant strain, / With head uprais'd and look intent, / And ey and ear attentive bent, / And locks slung back, and lips apart'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 105805

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