My Poll and my partner Joe [graphic]

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Title: My Poll and my partner Joe [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [4 August 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Aug. 4, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
Below title: A favourite song, composed and sung at the Lyceum, by Mr. Dibdin.
Four stanzas in two columns are printed below the plate: I was, d'ye see, a waterman ...
"The Waterman," a ballad-opera, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1774.
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures &c in the Kingdom. Admittance one shi.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Sailors -- Buildings: rustic cottages -- Wooden fences -- Pigs -- Kissing.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss ; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : design 16 x 24 cm. on sheet 34 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1790
Broadsides
Etchings England London 1790
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1790
England > London > 1790

Access: Public
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