The Irish adventuress The gallant sea captain. [graphic]

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Title: The Irish adventuress The gallant sea captain. [graphic]
Contributor: Walker, Thomas, active 1770-1805 publisher.
Published / Created: [1787]
Publication Place: Dublin
Publisher: Publish'd by T. Walker, No. 79 Dame Street
Abstract: Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, used to illustrate Town and country magazine, xix, p. 249, an account of the captain of an East Indiaman who acquired a fortune and bought an estate in a western country ... His mistress was originally an Irish peasant who came to England as a harvester; she became a domestic servant with families of position and has married the landlord of an inn to whom the captain gives his custom
Description: Title from item.
Variant state of No. 7197 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 10.2 x 15.7 cm, on sheet 12.5 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Periodical illustrations
Stipple engravings Ireland Dublin 1787
Material: engraving & stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Ship captains
Subjects: Couples
Ship captains
Ireland > Dublin > 1787

Access: Public
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