A Poem, spoken extempore, by a young lady, on hearing the guns firing and bells chiming on account of the great and glorious acquisition of their Excellencies Gen. Washington and the C. de Grasse, by the surrender of York-Town ...

All titles

• A Poem, spoken extempore, by a young lady, on hearing the guns firing and bells chiming on account of the great and glorious acquisition of their Excellencies Gen. Washington and the C. de Grasse, by the surrender of York-Town ...
• His Lordship humbled: or, Cornwallis's lamentation.

People / Organizations

• E. Russell ("printed by")

Imprint

[Boston]: Printed by E. Russell, near Liberty-Stump.--At the same place may be had, Russell's American almanac, and Bickerstaff's Boston do, [1781]

Publication year

1781-1781

ESTC No.

W1010

Grub Street ID

319196

Description

1 sheet : ill. (relief cuts) ; 35 x 21 cm

Note

Verse in twenty-eight lines, printed on left half of sheet beneath relief cut; first line: Honor commands great Washington I sing.

Right half of sheet contains second poem, in fifty-six lines, entitled: His Lordship humbled: or, Cornwallis's lamentation. With a relief cut flanking title. First line: Great Mars, thou god of battles won.

Dated [1782] by Bristol, but more likely printed soon after Cornwallis' surrender in October 1781. The advertisement for almanacs in the imprint also suggests that the sheet was issued late in 1781.

Printed area measures 32.1 x 18.7 cm.

Uncontrolled note

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides