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[Mrs. Anna Davis.]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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[Mrs. Anna Davis.]
Description
English: Heading to a set of verses printed in two columns, and purporting to be a song made formerly by the boys of Westminster School on an application from 'Mrs Anna Davis' to Dr. Smith (see BMSat 4921, &c.) 'to whip Master Lloyd and some other boys who kept bantam fowls in a yard adjoining her house and disturbed her much . . .'. An ugly old maid in a half-tester bed sits up and frowns angrily at a grinning schoolboy (left) who stands just within the open door holding a cock. On a chair by her bed is a lighted candle, 'Ovid's Art of Love', and a pair of spectacles. Her stays and shoes lie on the floor. The verses are directed 'to Mr Holland' by 'Pedagogue' on the occasion of Mrs. Davis's death: they relate that Mrs. Anna Davis, an elderly prude, had amorous desires towards 'charming Jacky Lloyd'. 7 July 1791
Hand-coloured etching with letterpress text
Depicted people Associated with: Anna Davis
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 180 millimetres (image)
Height: 401 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 230 millimetres (image)
Width: 249 millimetres (sheet)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6082
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Mrs. Anna Davis, of College Street, Westminster, eldest daughter of Owen Davis, died 23 March 1791 'much respected and lamented'. 'Gent. Mag.', 1791, p. 382.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6082
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