quail
unicorn
emerald
Boston
Euphorbus
Chatham (referring to William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768)
The aforementioned clues form an acrostic revealing the name of a town.
The answer can be found in An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of these POEMS.
A Rebus, by I.B.
quail, unicorn, emerald, Boston, Euphorbus, Chatham (referring to William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768).
Author/Artist: Wheatley, Phillis
Publisher:Bell, Archibald, [Publisher, London]; Wheatley, John d. 1778, associated name; printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate, and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, M DCC LXXIII.
Date: 1773
Description: Acrostic rebus poem on p. 123 of Poems on various subjects, religious and moral / by Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England.
Language: English
Repository: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tags: 18th-century, acrostic, American, Boston, Phillis Wheatley Peters, verbal, women
The aforementioned clues form an acrostic revealing the name of a town. The answer can be found in An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of these POEMS. For more information, see Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753–84) and “Acrostic Rebuses” of the 1770s.