Episodes in the nursery-rhyme "Sing a song of sixpence.": the king is served with a pie of blackbirds, the queen holds a honeycomb, and a maid has her nose pecked off by a blackbird. Colour process print after G.S..

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Below, a man in ermine-lined robes wields a sword: from another nursery-rhyme?

Physical description

1 print : process print

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Ye blackbird song. GS

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Bears indistinct monogram: GS or ES

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Wellcome Collection 35475i

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