An hieroglyphic epistle from a [sailor ] on board a [ship] [to] his sweet [heart] [graphic].

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Title: An hieroglyphic epistle from a [sailor ] on board a [ship] [to] his sweet [heart] [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 October 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed 21st October 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: A rhymed rebus, purporting to be a letter from a sailor to his girl, describing his adventures in a terrible storm at sea
Description: Title engraved above image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
The following words in the title are represented by an image: sailor by an image of a sailor, ship by an image of a ship, to by a toe, 'heart' in 'sweetheart' by a heart.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: horn with monogram JM below.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Rebuses
Watermarks (Paper) JM.
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Correspondence
Hieroglyphics
Military uniforms
Subjects: Correspondence
Hieroglyphics
Military uniforms
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
JM.

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