Illustration to an engraved song.  A woman asleep on a bank, her straw hat and basket of eggs beside her. Her petticoat has been cut off at the knee, showing the top of a gartered stocking. A pedlar (right), his pack on his back, walks off, holding the piece of petticoat, looking round with his finger to his nose.
<p><br>Beneath, to the tune, 'Round about the Maypole, &amp;c', are the words of the familiar nursery rhyme, beginning:
<br><br>'There was a little Woman as I heard tell,' 
<br><br>and ending,
<br><br>'Lord have mercy on me, surely 'tis not I.'  25 November 1784
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<br>Hand-coloured etching with an engraved poem.
1784<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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