[Harlequinade manuscript].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[England or America. ca 1800].
Description
1 sheet in 3] panels with flaps: chiefly watercolor illus. with washes in green, yellow, red and black. 20 x 24 cm.; 14 x 18" (matte).

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Notes
  • Text of first leaf: A lion rousing from his den/ On purpose for to range/ Is turnd into another shape/ Life up and see how strange.".
  • The images are the lion, that metamorphoses into an eagle; the man who metamorphoses into a purse; and the man who metamorphoses into a skeleton.
  • The texts are surrounded by oval floral frames
  • On laid watermarked paper (no date visible); long esses used.
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