Quebec (quail + unicorn + emerald + Boston + Euphorbus + Chatham)
This poem is in response to A Rebus, by I.B.
An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of these POEMS
Quebec (quail + unicorn + emerald + Boston + Euphorbus + Chatham).
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. 124 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
This poem is in response to A Rebus, by I.B. For more information, see Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753–84) and “Acrostic Rebuses” of the 1770s.