This was the Pompadour’s fan!
Envoy.
Where are the secrets it knew
Weavings of plot and of plan?
But where is the Pompadour too?—
This was the Pompadour’s fan?
Austin Dobson.
A very large number of replies were sent in, and examples were printed in Truth, February 23, and March 8, 1888. Although they cannot be called true parodies, yet two of the Ballades are so interesting as imitations that they are inserted. The first being that to which the prize was awarded, written by Mr. J. C. Woods, of Swansea, and the second written by Mr. F. B. Doveton, of Eastbourne.
A Ballade of the Grosvenor Gallery.
Art, fled from earth, Sir Coutts and Co.