The flowing can [graphic].

Description

Title: The flowing can [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 April 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 21st April 1791 by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: In a tavern, sailors in uniform are carousing; one dances with a woman in the centre, as another plays a violin on the left in front of diamond-patterned casement windows; others are drinking (mugs in hand) or smoking clay pipes. A couple kiss and embrace in the background. A ship model hangs from the ceiling. A fat dog (or cat?) lies at the feet of the musician
Description: Title engraved below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint and verses. Missing text and sheet dimensions supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.1068.
Below title is a song of sixty-nine lines in three columns 'A Sailor's life's a life of woe, ... And swig the flowing Can.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 354 x 254 mm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints England 1791
Mezzotints England London 1791
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dance
Eating & drinking
Kissing
Model ships
Musicians
Sailors
Smoking
Taverns (Inns)
Subjects: Dance
Eating & drinking
Kissing
Model ships
Musicians
Sailors
Smoking
Taverns (Inns)
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

Access: Public
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