The Gord-Ian Knot still Untied or the Disappointed Dido still in Despair

  • Stiff Wraps
  • London: S.W. Fores, 1802
By London. S.W. Fores
London: S.W. Fores, 1802. Stiff Wraps. Orig. full color lithograph. Near fine. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching, with publisher note at bottom right, "Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening." Dido, arms raised, rails, "Ah me, a luckless Maid, thus crossed in hope & expectation so quite lost in both attempts, the one for ever gone the other too Cold to feel the genial warmth of mine and Mother Love. I'll take to my Weeds & shew the World the ne'er was Love like mine." Slight blemish on papers lying at lower right margin.

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