Click on the illustration to open a large version so that you can read the words under the charming stick figures.
The artist of the plate, and the composer of the accompanying poem are given no credit or identification. You must read the poem to make sense of the intention of the illustration.
This is what might be called, I think, a charming conceit, and I hope you enjoy it!
'Til next time,
Lesley-Anne
Ackermann's Repository of Arts 1817 available from archive.org
