GEORGE STEPHENS,
Professor of English Literature in the
University of Copenhagen.
Mill Farm, Barnes, Surrey, July, 1851.
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Minor Queries.
1. Painted Prints of Overton.
—In Vol. iii., pp. 324, 325., under the title "The Bellman and his History," are quoted some lines from Gay's Trivia, book ii. p. 482. The last line is—
"The colour'd prints of Overton appear."
Who was Overton, and what were his prints that Gay in these lines makes the companions of the bellman's song?
F. L. H.