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The r---l lovers, or, Another attempt at making love.
Peel 1969
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Broadside verse with hand-colored etched illustration.
Lettered below image "Printed and published by J. Johnston, 98, Cheapside, Aug. 1814."
Later state of BM Satires 12020.
Summary:
On the subject of the Duke of Clarence attempting to woo the widowed Duchess of Oldenburg. Begins: "Ah! never in the fire was so scorch'd a Salamander / As I with love for the sister of the Emperor Alexander ... "
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