Songs: 'Mary, dear Mary list awake. And take the moon thy slumbers break...', 1822, Soft ground etching, Image: 7 7/8 × 10 1/8 in. (20 × 25.7 cm), Prints, Henry Thomas Alken (British, London 1785–1851 London), One sheet of a series of satires, designed as a song book. Composed of vignette scenes, each scene illustrating in a humourous fashion a single line from a popular song of the day. The imagery derives from hunting, shooting and horses, scenes from domestic life, fashion, town and country life, military and naval life
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Songs, Mary, dear Mary list awake, take, moon thy slumbers break.., 1822, Soft ground etching, Image, 7 7/8, 10 1/8, 20, 25.7 cm, Prints, Henry Thomas Alken, British, London, 1785–1851, sheet, series, satires, designed, song book, Composed, vignette scenes, scene illustrating, humourous fashion, single line, popular song, day, imagery derives, hunting, shooting, horses, scenes, domestic life, fashion, town, country, military, naval
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