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Advice to a painter

Index: INDEX/BCMSV/166

Details

Type: Index

Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/166 (Lt q 38 )

Title: Advice to a painter

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1697

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/98071

Reference

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Pages: pp.232-39

Bibliographic reference: Osborne 47; BCMSV 1795; POAS VI.15-25

Description

Notes: (What hand what)

First lines: What hand what skill can form the artfull peice

To paint our ruins in a proper dress

Last lines: Who undiscover'd yet will us with ease betray

And sell their country in a closer way

Length: 144

Verse form: Couplets

Contents: Outspoken scurrilous satire on William III, his supporters and ministers, and

members of parliament, attacking the corruption of the system; in the form of

advice to a painter